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Author: Carl Holliday
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 1999-07-01
Total Pages: 354
ISBN-13: 9780486408972
DOWNLOAD EBOOKClassic study suggests that, in spite of hardships, many American colonial women led rich, fulfilling lives. Thoughtfully written, well-documented account explores daily lives of women in New England and Southern colonies.
Author: Brandon Marie Miller
Publisher: Twenty-First Century Books
Published: 2003-01-01
Total Pages: 108
ISBN-13: 9780822500322
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA social history of the American colonial period focuses on the daily lives of women, including European immigrants, Native Americans, and slaves, who played a vital role in shaping America. Jr Lib Guild.
Author: Brandon Marie Miller
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
Published: 2016-02-01
Total Pages: 233
ISBN-13: 1556525397
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNew York Public Library Teen Book List In colonial America, hard work proved a constant for most women—some ensured their family's survival through their skills, while others sold their labor or lived in bondage as indentured servants or slaves. Yet even in a world defined entirely by men, a world where few thought it important to record a female's thoughts, women found ways to step forth. Elizabeth Ashbridge survived an abusive indenture to become a Quaker preacher. Anne Bradstreet penned her poems while raising eight children in the wilderness. Anne Hutchinson went toe-to-toe with Puritan authorities. Margaret Hardenbroeck Philipse built a trade empire in New Amsterdam. And Eve, a Virginia slave, twice ran away to freedom. Using a host of primary sources, author Brandon Marie Miller recounts the roles, hardships, and daily lives of Native American, European, and African women in the 17th and 18th centuries. With strength, courage, resilience, and resourcefulness, these women and many others played a vital role in the mosaic of life in the North American colonies.
Author: Carol Berkin
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Published: 1997-07-01
Total Pages: 283
ISBN-13: 1466806117
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIndian, European, and African women of seventeenth and eighteenth-century America were defenders of their native land, pioneers on the frontier, willing immigrants, and courageous slaves. They were also - as traditional scholarship tends to omit - as important as men in shaping American culture and history. This remarkable work is a gripping portrait that gives early-American women their proper place in history.
Author: Susan Migden Socolow
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2015-02-16
Total Pages: 287
ISBN-13: 0521196655
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA highly readable survey of women's experiences in Latin America from the late fifteenth to the early nineteenth centuries.
Author: Martha Few
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 2010-01-01
Total Pages: 203
ISBN-13: 0292782004
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWomen Who Live Evil Lives documents the lives and practices of mixed-race, Black, Spanish, and Maya women sorcerers, spell-casters, magical healers, and midwives in the social relations of power in Santiago de Guatemala, the capital of colonial Central America. Men and women from all sectors of society consulted them to intervene in sexual and familial relations and disputes between neighbors and rival shop owners; to counter abusive colonial officials, employers, or husbands; and in cases of inexplicable illness. Applying historical, anthropological, and gender studies analysis, Martha Few argues that women's local practices of magic, curing, and religion revealed opportunities for women's cultural authority and power in colonial Guatemala. Few draws on archival research conducted in Guatemala, Mexico, and Spain to shed new light on women's critical public roles in Santiago, the cultural and social connections between the capital city and the countryside, and the gender dynamics of power in the ethnic and cultural contestation of Spanish colonial rule in daily life.
Author: Alice Morse Earle
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Published: 1898
Total Pages: 560
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe author reconstructs for us colonial life by describing in great detail manners, customs, dress, homes, and child life.
Author: Rebecca Larson
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Published: 2000-09-01
Total Pages: 422
ISBN-13: 9780807848975
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMore than a thousand Quaker female ministers were active in the Anglo-American world before the Revolutionary War, when the Society of Friends constituted the colonies' third-largest religious group. Some of these women circulated throughout British North
Author: Emily West
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2014-12-05
Total Pages: 169
ISBN-13: 1442208732
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWest offers an overview of the lives of enslaved women in America by using a broad chronological perspective, considering themes and issues in their lives from the colonial era through to the end of the Civil War. She compares the lives of enslaved women—sometimes exceptional and sometimes ordinary—across time and space with the lives of enslaved men, and with the white men and women who held them in bondage. West draws upon a wide range of evidence in evaluating enslaved women's lives and considers the major methodological issues they pose in order to build a composite, or overall, picture of enslaved womanhood through "snapshots'' of different women at various stages of their life-cycles.
Author: Kathleen M. Brown
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Published: 2012-12-01
Total Pages: 518
ISBN-13: 0807838292
DOWNLOAD EBOOKKathleen Brown examines the origins of racism and slavery in British North America from the perspective of gender. Both a basic social relationship and a model for other social hierarchies, gender helped determine the construction of racial categories and the institution of slavery in Virginia. But the rise of racial slavery also transformed gender relations, including ideals of masculinity. In response to the presence of Indians, the shortage of labor, and the insecurity of social rank, Virginia's colonial government tried to reinforce its authority by regulating the labor and sexuality of English servants and by making legal distinctions between English and African women. This practice, along with making slavery hereditary through the mother, contributed to the cultural shift whereby women of African descent assumed from lower-class English women both the burden of fieldwork and the stigma of moral corruption. Brown's analysis extends through Bacon's Rebellion in 1676, an important juncture in consolidating the colony's white male public culture, and into the eighteenth century. She demonstrates that, despite elite planters' dominance, wives, children, free people of color, and enslaved men and women continued to influence the meaning of race and class in colonial Virginia.
