Seduced, Abandoned, and Reborn Visions of Youth in Middle-Class America, 1780-1850 Rodney Hessinger "Offering keen insight derived from a wide range of sources, from eighteenth-century literature to institutional records, Seduced, Abandoned, and Rebornis important reading for scholars of gender, youth, and class in the early republic."--Journal of the Early Republic "Politicians, preachers, and pundits prattle about family values, but this lovely little book engages our actual experience of the family as those self-appointed moralists never manage to do. Rodney Hessinger is a...