How did a woman's designation of legal personhood change when she got married in the eighteenth century? And what rights did she lose? Isaac S. Loftus and Dr. Lynn Price Robbins welcome historian and scholar Dr. Karin Wulf to discuss women, men, and marriage in the British North American colonies and the early United States.

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Relevant Links:

• Dr. Karin Wulf - https://karinwulf.com/
• Not All Wives: Women of Colonial Philadelphia - https://www.pennpress.org/9780812219173/not-all-wives/
• The Geography of Slavery in Virginia - http://www2.vcdh.virginia.edu/gos/
• Virginia Freedom Suits - https://data.virginia.gov/Education/Freedom-Suits/9vfm-ate3/data and https://enduringconnections.salisbury.edu/virginia_freedom_suits_library_of_virginia/records
• Manumission - https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/manumission
• Revolutionary Backlash: Women and Politics in the Early American Republic by Dr. Rosemarie Zagarri - https://www.pennpress.org/9780812220735/revolutionary-backlash/
• Smithsonian articles by Dr. Wulf - https://www.smithsonianmag.com/author/karin-wulf/
• Brown University - https://earlymodernworld.brown.edu/people/karin-wulf
• Instagram - @vernaculargenealogy and @karin.wulf 
• Mastodon - [email protected]
• Twitter - @kawulf

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