Would it be fair to say that 18th Century American Laws required tavern keepers to display good qualities. Get acquainted with Elijah Williams, tavern keeper from Deerfield, Massachusetts, and the different posts he held within his community. Agree if business opportunities for women in colonial times were limited. Discover if many women residing in urban areas tried their hands at tavern keeping. Get introduced to female tavern keepers in Christiana Campbell of Williamsburg, Virginia, and Ann Cross of Charleston, South Carolina. Determine whether women mainly became tavern keepers due to the fact there were limited choice options available. Understand what the term “public charge” exactly means. Go behind the scenes and explore how widowed women sought out tavern licenses for the first time before the judicial system. Agree if it’s fair to say that some women tavern owners ran facilities where behavioral standards of the time got violated. Learn how tavern keeping got to be considered a short lived practice for female business owners. Discover exactly just how many women held tavern licenses in Philadelphia between the 1760’s-1770’s. Get an in depth analysis behind the greater logistics into running an urban tavern which included more than just one’s immediate family. Explore the successes of two former enslaved men in Cato Alexander and Thomas Downing whom ran their own dining establishments.

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