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The Sugar Act, Stamp Act, and Townshend Duties
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Flax and Linen in the Colonial Household
For Colonial Women, High Hair Was High Fashion
What Was Life Like for Women in Colonial Boston?
After the repeal of the Stamp Act, a letter from Benjamin Franklin to his wife described how he [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and likely many other Americans, regarded the results of women’s household labors in the cause of liberty. “As the Stamp Act is at length repeal’d, I am willing you should have a new Gown, which you may suppose I did not send sooner, as I knew you would not like to be finer than your neighbours, unless in a Gown of your own spinning. Had the trade between the two Countries totally ceas’d, it was a Comfort to me to recollect [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], that I had once been cloth’d from Head to Foot in Woolen and Linnen of my Wife’s Manufacture, that I never was prouder of any Dress in my Life, and that she and her Daughter might do it again if it was necessary…”
Holliday, Carl. Woman’s Life in Colonial Days. Omnigraphics, 1990.
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After the war, imports returned, but rural families all over the colonies continued to make their own linen and woolen fabrics until factory-produced products eventually became inexpensive enough for general use by even the poorest Americans. The contribution of colonial women, working long hours in their own homes to further the cause of Liberty, should not be overlooked.
Colonial settlers, especially on farms, produced their own linen and woolen clothing out of necessity, but as time went on, greater prosperity allowed many people to purchase cloth imported from Europe. Rural settlers continued to create their own homespun fabrics such as linen from flax they grew themselves, and wool from sheep raised locally.
The Decline of Homespun Clothing
Benjamin Franklin on Homespun Clothing
They still needed to clothe their families, however, and thus spinning and weaving cloth, both linen and wool, became the patriotic thing to do. People took pride in manufacturing their own fabrics. At the same time many colonial governments encouraged the increased production of home-grown material. Some colonies passed ordinances directing residents to plant and spin flax, and a number of spinning schools were established to teach town-dwelling women the skill.
Although men joined political societies and began to develop ways to fight what they felt were unfair taxes imposed upon them by Britain, women were denied any political or public roles in building a new society. However, they understood that they could still play an important role in the political process – putting economic pressure on Britain by refusing to purchase imported goods. Throughout New England, groups of women met, calling themselves The Daughters of Liberty and vowing to support the cause in whatever ways they could. They refused to purchase taxed items like tea, sugar, and cloth.
Norton [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Mary Beth. Liberty’s Daughters. Little, Brown, 1980.
Starting with the Sugar Act of 1864, the British government began to implement taxes on goods imported to the colonies. Britain relied heavily on its woolen trade to keep the country economically strong, and thus regulations were introduced that prohibited the exportation of American woolen goods. At the same time, American colonies were expected to support the British woolen industry by purchasing such necessities from British sources.
Earle, Alice Morse. Home Life in Colonial Days. Jonathan David Publishers, 1975.
The Daughters of Liberty
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