The Peculiar Beverage: Women’s Agency through the Alcohol Trade and its loss following the American Revolutionary War
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Richard Byington
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A Woman in a role of economic stewardship, within eighteenth to early nineteenth-century America, is often seen as unrealistic. Yet, women were at the top of an industry in the early 1700s, and more specifically until the American Revolution. This business was the rum industry, and the masculinization of brewing after the Revolutionary war was one of the greatest assaults on agency in early American history. This loss of agency devolved into the absoluteness of the patriarchy, and the transfer of all responsibilities associated with brewing. Additionally, the historiography of this topic is vast, and well-founded through the tireless efforts of many historians. My goal is to place this paper in the historiography by asserting that women had a huge amount of agency in early America through the substance of alcohol, George Washington was instrumental in taking away this progress, and the birth of the new nation-state further robbed women of freedom.
The Peculiar Beverage: Women’s Agency through the Alcohol Trade and its loss following the American Revolutionary War
A Woman in a role of economic stewardship, within eighteenth to early nineteenth-century America, is often seen as unrealistic. Yet, women were at the top of an industry in the early 1700s, and more specifically until the American Revolution. This business was the rum industry, and the masculinization of brewing after the Revolutionary war was one of the greatest assaults on agency in early American history. This loss of agency devolved into the absoluteness of the patriarchy, and the transfer of all responsibilities associated with brewing. Additionally, the historiography of this topic is vast, and well-founded through the tireless efforts of many historians. My goal is to place this paper in the historiography by asserting that women had a huge amount of agency in early America through the substance of alcohol, George Washington was instrumental in taking away this progress, and the birth of the new nation-state further robbed women of freedom.
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