[E]njoyably fresh and informative."-Gayle Stege, Curator, Ohio State University, Historic Costumes & Textiles Collection."[A] most informative essay about the production of woolen clothing in late 18th-century America."-Karen Parsons, Coordinator, Depreciation Lands Museum."On display in the Smithsonian National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C., is the only uniform worn by George Washington known to survive. As a rareartifact it is priceless; but it also has value for what it can tell us about everyday life during a significant period in American history.The sewing machine hadn't been invented, so all clothing was sewn by hand, one stitch at a time. The fabric, too, was made by hand-in fact, by many hands. Using Washington's uniform as a model, Donald Tunnicliff Rice takes us through the many steps necessary to make an eighteenth-century garment. Along theway we learn a great deal about the colonies'-and the new nation's-social structure, economy, industry, foreign relations, and hopes for the future.
The growing appeal of abolitionism and its increasing success in converting Americans to the antislavery cause, a generation before the Civil War, is clearly revealed in this book on the Methodist Episcopal Church in America. The moral character of the antislavery movement is stressed. Originally published in 1965. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
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