Contents

• Introduction: Inequality in Early America / Carla Gardina Pestana and Sharon V. Salinger
• Sustaining Inequality. "Either Married or to Bee Married": Women’s Legal Inequality in Early America / Mary Beth Norton. "Riches and Honour Were Rejected by Them as Loathsome Vomit": The Fear of Leveling in New England / Thomas N. Ingersoll. Partial Revival: The Limits of the Great Awakening in Boston, Massachusetts, 1740-1742 / J. Richard Olivas. Inequality in the Here and the Hereafter: Religion and the Construction of Race and Gender in the Postrevolutionary South / Sylvia R. Frey
• Resistance. "I Loved the Place of My Dwelling": Puritan Missionaries and Native Americans in Seventeenth-Century Southern New England / Neal Salisbury. Black Women Who Stole Themselves in Eighteenth- Century America / Billy G. Smith. African Spirituality and Cultural Practice in Colonial New York, 1700-1770 / Sterling Stuckey. Sheep in the Parlor, Wheels on the Common: Pastoralism and Poverty in Eighteenth-Century Boston / Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
• Conceptualizing Inequality. A Class Society? The Nature of Inequality in Early America / Ronald Schultz. Slave Labor Camps in Early America: Overcoming Denial and Discovering the Gulag / Peter H. Wood. Rethinking Early American Slavery / Philip D. Morgan. The Concept of Inevitability in the History of European-Indian Relations / Gary B. Nash
• Afterword. Reminiscences of Gary B. Nash / Richard S. Dunn