Alexandra Garrett

Assistant Professor, Saint Michael's College

Early America, Early Republic United States, American women's history, gender and enterprise, history of gender, Slavery
Women in Business History

I am an early American historian. I research how elite, unmarried white women (legally classified as feme soles) commercially related to the people they enslaved, and how they managed slave-manned enterprises in the American revolutionary and early national periods.

Recent Conference Participation

2024 BHC Meeting: Discussant, The Nature of Enterprise in the 19th Century U.S.
2023 BHC Meeting: Chair, Business History in the Longue Durée
2022 BHC Meeting : Presenter, "Hammering Nails for Buildings and the Nation: Enslaved Workers in Ironworks during the Southern Market Revolution"