The "lower Sort"

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The "lower Sort" is written by Billy Gordon Smith and published by Cornell University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0801481635 (ISBN 10) and 9780801481635 (ISBN 13).

This book recreates the daily lives of laboring men and women in America's premier urban center during the second half of the eighteenth century. Billy G. Smith demonstrates how the "lower sort" (as they were called by their contemporaries) struggled to carve out meaningful lives during an era of vast change stretching from the Seven Years' War, through the turbulent events surrounding the American Revolution and the U.S. Constitution, into the first decade of the new nation.