Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction 1
5. 1. “A Cornerstone to My Love-Fabric”: In Which Henry Drinker Woos Elizabeth Sandwith 20
6. 2. “Tenderness, Care, and Anxiety” at Home and Abroad: In Which the Drinkers Embark on Married Life 55
7. 3. “Obliged to Wade through This Sea of Politics”: In Which the Firm of James and Drinker Flounders in Storms of Political Protest 89
8. 4. “Cruelty and Oppression”: In Which Henry Drinker Is Arrested and Sent into Exile 132
9. 5. “Inward and Outward Trials”: Surviving the Revolution 168
10. 6. “The Cause of Humanity, as Well as Our Interest”: In Which Henry Drinker Reinvents Himself as a Moral Architect 211
11. 7. “Times Are Much Changed, and Maids Are Become Mistresses”: In Which Elizabeth Drinker Tries to Fend Off a Domestic Revolution 249
12. 8. “A Scene of Affl iction and Grief”: In Which Elizabeth and Henry Drinker Face New Challenges to Their Family’s Survival 292
13. 9. “To the Place of Fixedness”: In Which the Drinkers Reach the End of Their Journey 335
14. Epilogue 365
15. Family Trees 375
16. Chronology 383
17. Notes 385
18. Index 445