Divorce was difficult and in some places impossible to obtain.Ibid., 47. So long as a man provided food, clothing, and shelter for his wife, she was not legally allowed to leave him. New York: Little, Brown, and Company, 46. Liberty’s Daughters: The Revolutionary Experience of American Women, 1750–1800. If women worked outside the home, their husbands were entitled to their wages.Mary Beth Norton. Husbands could not sell their wives’ real property-such as land or in some states slaves-without their permission, but they were allowed to manage it and retain the profits. Not only did women adopt their husbands’ names, but all personal property they owned legally became their husbands’ property. When women married, their separate legal identities were erased under the legal principle of coverture. Although single women were allowed to own property, married women were not. At the time of the American Revolution, women had few rights.
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