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The Ties That Buy LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 18th Century But being a good motherIn 1770, tavernkeeper Abigail Stoneman called in her debts by flourishing a handful of playing cards before the Rhode Island Court of Common Pleas. Scrawled on the cards were the IOUs of drinkers whose links to Stoneman testified to women's paradoxical place in the urban economy of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Stoneman did traditional women's workboarding, feeding, cleaning, and selling alcoholbut her customers, like her