Degree Name
MALS (Master of Arts in Liberal Studies)
Program
Liberal Studies
Date of Award
8-2005
Committee Chair or Co-Chairs
Dale J. Schmitt
Committee Members
Marie Tedesco, Norma Myers
Abstract
Following the Proclamation Act of 1763 growing numbers of colonists arrived in upper East Tennessee to settle and build wherever they could make arrangements with local groups of Cherokee. While these first families were occupied with survival, the British colonies continued to thrive. Concurrent with growing prosperity was the increasing determination of colonists to exercise control over their property and economic interests. Frontier exigencies affected family strategies for dividing labor and creating economic endeavors. A commonly held view asserts that where women were scarce and needed, rigid sex-role distinctions could not prevail. This thesis will present research of the earliest Washington County Court records and other primary evidence from the late eighteenth-century through the early Republic period to examine the place of women in the upper East Tennessee frontier and argue that despite frontier conditions the underlying attitudes about women did not change.
Document Type
Thesis - unrestricted
Recommended Citation
Henson, SΣndra Lee Allen, "To See Her Face, To Hear Her Voice: Profiling the Place of Women in Early Upper East Tennessee, 1773-1810." (2005). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. Paper 1051. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/1051
Copyright
Copyright by the authors.