Terri L Snyder
Biographic Data
| ID | 1004451 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Terri L Snyder |
| GIVEN NAMES | Terri L |
| FAMILY NAME | Snyder |
| SIGNATURE | SNYDER T L |
| AFFILIATIONS | California State University, Fullerton |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Cambridge History of the American Revolution
The first volume delves into how the context of the American Revolution was set, taking readers across North America and the world to reveal the far-flung people, events, institutions, cultures, and ideas that led to its inception. Through a global lens, the volume shows how empires struggled with political and economic reforms, as well as popular protest, while competing and warring with each other. On a continental scale, long-term environmenta…
The Trafficking of Elisha Webb
This article examines the story of Elisha Webb, an African-descended woman who was born free (ca. 1716) on Virginia's Eastern Shore. In 1737, she was illegally sold into slavery and trafficked to Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Webb's efforts to regain her free status, which she successfully obtained in 1742, illustrate the politics of African American legal claims to freedom in early North America. Although individuals such as Webb accomplished vital…
As If She Were Free
As If She Were Free brings together the biographies of twenty-four women of African descent to reveal how enslaved and recently freed women sought, imagined, and found freedom from the sixteenth through the nineteenth centuries in the Americas. Our biographical approach allows readers to view large social processes – migration, trade, enslavement, emancipation – through the perspective of individual women moving across the boundaries of slavery a…
Life, By the Numbers
Life, By the Numbers Terri L. Snyder (bio) IN this remarkable book, Richard S. Dunn compares the multigenerational experiences of enslaved people on Mesopotamia, a sugar estate in western Jamaica, and Mount Airy, a tobacco, wheat, and corn plantation in Richmond County, on the Northern Neck of tidewater Virginia. The study, which Dunn began in the 1970s, has all the hallmarks of the new social history. It features ordinary people, a search for de…
Marriage on the Margins
In 1725, Jane Webb, a free woman of color, sued Thomas Savage, a slave owner and middling planter, in Northampton County Court, on the Eastern Shore of Virginia. Webb v. Savage was an unusual lawsuit, the culmination of over twenty years of legal wrangling between two parties who had an uncommon and intimate connection. The case originated in a 1703 contract between the pair, and at the time it was written, its terms, assumedly, were clear and mu…
Refiguring Women in Early American History
What Historians Talk About When They Talk About Suicide
This article surveys the historiography of suicide in the early modern West, with particular reference to England, Europe, and the British North American and Caribbean colonies. It examines the religious, legal and secular punishments for suicide in the early modern era, addresses the variations in these punishments among different regions and populations, including among the enslaved in early America, and traces the changes in punishments for se…
Brabbling Women
Brabbling Women takes its title from a 1662 law enacted by Virginia's burgesses, which was intended to offer relief to the poore forced into defamation suits because their brabling wives had slandered or scandalized their neighbors. To quell such episodes of female misrule, lawmakers decreed that husbands could choose either to pay damages or to have their wives publicly ducked.But there was more at stake here. By examining women's use of languag…
Ordinary People
Courts and Commerce
Journal Article Courts and Commerce: Gender, Law, and the Market Economy in Colonial New York. By Deborah A. Rosen. (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1997. xvi, 232 pp. Cloth, $45.00, ISBN 0-8142-0736-7. Paper, $17.95, ISBN 0-8142-0737-5.) Get access Terri L. Snyder Terri L. Snyder California State University, Fullerton, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 8…
Legal History of the Colonial South
T X SHE court and the law were at the very center of life in the colonial South. Rhys Isaac and A. G. Roeber argue that the county courts in Virginia were arenas in which legal knowledge was transmitted and legal authority was enforced or challenged.' The convening of court also had a social dimension. Lorena S. Walsh writes that court day played an important role in maintaining community ties in Maryland,2 and Virginia county courts, according t…
What Historians Talk About When They Talk About Suicide
This article surveys the historiography of suicide in the early modern West, with particular reference to England, Europe, and the British North American and Caribbean colonies. It examines the religious, legal and secular punishments for suicide in the early modern era, addresses the variations in these punishments among different regions and populations, including among the enslaved in early America, and traces the changes in punishments for se…
Legal History of the Colonial South
T X SHE court and the law were at the very center of life in the colonial South. Rhys Isaac and A. G. Roeber argue that the county courts in Virginia were arenas in which legal knowledge was transmitted and legal authority was enforced or challenged.' The convening of court also had a social dimension. Lorena S. Walsh writes that court day played an important role in maintaining community ties in Maryland,2 and Virginia county courts, according t…
Refiguring Women in Early American History
Marriage on the Margins
In 1725, Jane Webb, a free woman of color, sued Thomas Savage, a slave owner and middling planter, in Northampton County Court, on the Eastern Shore of Virginia. Webb v. Savage was an unusual lawsuit, the culmination of over twenty years of legal wrangling between two parties who had an uncommon and intimate connection. The case originated in a 1703 contract between the pair, and at the time it was written, its terms, assumedly, were clear and mu…
Legal History of the Colonial South
T X SHE court and the law were at the very center of life in the colonial South. Rhys Isaac and A. G. Roeber argue that the county courts in Virginia were arenas in which legal knowledge was transmitted and legal authority was enforced or challenged.' The convening of court also had a social dimension. Lorena S. Walsh writes that court day played an important role in maintaining community ties in Maryland,2 and Virginia county courts, according t…
Courts and Commerce
Journal Article Courts and Commerce: Gender, Law, and the Market Economy in Colonial New York. By Deborah A. Rosen. (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1997. xvi, 232 pp. Cloth, $45.00, ISBN 0-8142-0736-7. Paper, $17.95, ISBN 0-8142-0737-5.) Get access Terri L. Snyder Terri L. Snyder California State University, Fullerton, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 8…
Ordinary People
Brabbling Women
Brabbling Women takes its title from a 1662 law enacted by Virginia's burgesses, which was intended to offer relief to the poore forced into defamation suits because their brabling wives had slandered or scandalized their neighbors. To quell such episodes of female misrule, lawmakers decreed that husbands could choose either to pay damages or to have their wives publicly ducked.But there was more at stake here. By examining women's use of languag…
What Historians Talk About When They Talk About Suicide
This article surveys the historiography of suicide in the early modern West, with particular reference to England, Europe, and the British North American and Caribbean colonies. It examines the religious, legal and secular punishments for suicide in the early modern era, addresses the variations in these punishments among different regions and populations, including among the enslaved in early America, and traces the changes in punishments for se…
Marriage on the Margins
In 1725, Jane Webb, a free woman of color, sued Thomas Savage, a slave owner and middling planter, in Northampton County Court, on the Eastern Shore of Virginia. Webb v. Savage was an unusual lawsuit, the culmination of over twenty years of legal wrangling between two parties who had an uncommon and intimate connection. The case originated in a 1703 contract between the pair, and at the time it was written, its terms, assumedly, were clear and mu…
Refiguring Women in Early American History
Life, By the Numbers
Life, By the Numbers Terri L. Snyder (bio) IN this remarkable book, Richard S. Dunn compares the multigenerational experiences of enslaved people on Mesopotamia, a sugar estate in western Jamaica, and Mount Airy, a tobacco, wheat, and corn plantation in Richmond County, on the Northern Neck of tidewater Virginia. The study, which Dunn began in the 1970s, has all the hallmarks of the new social history. It features ordinary people, a search for de…
As If She Were Free
As If She Were Free brings together the biographies of twenty-four women of African descent to reveal how enslaved and recently freed women sought, imagined, and found freedom from the sixteenth through the nineteenth centuries in the Americas. Our biographical approach allows readers to view large social processes – migration, trade, enslavement, emancipation – through the perspective of individual women moving across the boundaries of slavery a…
The Trafficking of Elisha Webb
This article examines the story of Elisha Webb, an African-descended woman who was born free (ca. 1716) on Virginia's Eastern Shore. In 1737, she was illegally sold into slavery and trafficked to Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Webb's efforts to regain her free status, which she successfully obtained in 1742, illustrate the politics of African American legal claims to freedom in early North America. Although individuals such as Webb accomplished vital…
The Cambridge History of the American Revolution
The first volume delves into how the context of the American Revolution was set, taking readers across North America and the world to reveal the far-flung people, events, institutions, cultures, and ideas that led to its inception. Through a global lens, the volume shows how empires struggled with political and economic reforms, as well as popular protest, while competing and warring with each other. On a continental scale, long-term environmenta…
History (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · American Constitutional Law and Politics (7 works) · Law (7 works) · History (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · American History and Culture (4 works) · Race, History, and American Society (4 works) · Colonialism (3 works)