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One of the most important developments of the first half of the nineteenth century was the emergence of commercial capitalism and a market economy. How was women’s labor (black and white, slave and free, northern and southern) central to this development? Consider both domestic and public labor in your answer.

Read Chapters 4 and 5** in Dubois & Dumenil, Through Women’s Eyes

Dubois, E.C. & Dumenil, L. (2019). Through women’s eyes (5th ed.). Boston, MA: Bedford/St. Martin’s.

Review “Women Soldiers of the Civil War.” https://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/1993/spring/women-in-the-civil- war-1.html