...Within the broader topic of the distribution of the tasks, this chapter and the following deal with the management of human beings in the house or the city. This chapter focuses on the relationship between the husband and the wife as owners of the household, in three steps. It first shows how...

...This chapter begins with a contrast: between the language and action of Nathaniel Bacon, Jr., leader of Bacon's Rebellion (1676) and Herman Husband, a leader in the Whiskey Rebellion (1794). Bacon claimed to be a true representative of the King, over and against the Colony of Virginia's appointed...