Down and out in early America
By: edited by Billy G. Smith
Contributors: Smith, Billy Gordon
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: University Park, Pa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 327
Subjects: Poverty -- United States -- History; Poor -- United States -- History; Marginality, Social -- United States -- History; Charities -- United States -- History; Economic assistance, Domestic -- United States -- History; United States -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
Notes: Three of the eleven papers in this volume were presented at a session held at the 1997 Organization of American Historians meeting

Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Introduction: "The best poor man's country?" / Billy G. Smith; title: Poverty and politics in early American history / Gary B. Nash; title: Lives of the poor: Dead bodies: poverty and death in early national Philadelphia / Simon Newman; Malthusian miseries and the working poor in Philadelphia, 1780-1830: gender and infant mortality / Susan E. Klepp; Slaves and poverty / Philip D. Morgan; title: Poor relief: "Who died an expence to this town": poor relief in eighteenth century Rhode Island / Ruth Wallis Herndon; Gender and the political economy of poor relief in colonial Philadelphia / Karin Wulf; Poor relief "without violating the rights of humanity": almshouse administration in the Philadelphia region, 1790-1860 / Monique Bourque; Bound by charity: the abandoned children of late eighteenth century Charleston / John E. Murray; title: Politics, religion, and the creation of poverty: Poverty and politics in the Hudson River Valley / Thomas Humphrey; "God helps those who help themselves": religious explanations of poverty in colonial Massachusetts, 1630-1776 / J. Richard Olivas; The Delaware Indians and poverty in colonial New Jersey / Jean R. Soderlund