Social Control in Early Republican America

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An examination of social control measures in republican America. The author looks at the way which women, men of color and people of varying ethnicities were treated and controlled. An examination of race, ethnicity and gender in the areas of politics, economics and social structure in early republican America. The author argues that these groups were subjected to similar measures rendering them subordinate.

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"While there were important differences in the ways in which Native Americans, black Americans and women were treated in colonial and early Republican America having to do with the complex ways in which race, ethnicity and gender intersected with the spheres of politics, economy and social structure. But against these differences may be weighed the many similar ways in which members of these three groups were subject to the same forms of social control, for women and men of color all found their bodies controlled, their destinies foreshortened, their economic prospects diminished, and their potential sense of agency stolen from them because of the social category to which they belonged."

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