 | Theda Perdue - History - 1998 - 270 pages
...as that of any other individuals, they have scarcely anything in common." 37 According to Bartram, "Marriage gives no right to the husband over the property of his wife." 38 Such an arrangement gave women control over the crops they produced and a proprietary interest in... | |
 | Rebecca Kugel, Lucy Eldersveld Murphy - Social Science - 2007 - 504 pages
...belonged to her, or perhaps more accurately, to her family. According to the naturalist William Bartram, "Marriage gives no right to the husband over the property...wife; and when they part she keeps the children and property belonging to them."6 The "property" that women kept included agricultural produce — corn,... | |
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Marriage gives no right to the husband over the property of his wife, and when they part, she keeps the children, and the property belonging to them and to her. 
