Women in Early America: Struggle, Survival, and Freedom in a New WorldBloomsbury Academic, 2004 M11 23 - 495 páginas This volume fills a gap in traditional women's history books by offering fascinating details of the lives of early American women and showing how these women adapted to the challenges of daily life in the colonies. |
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... Quaker threat . In 1656 a law was passed that made it illegal for any com- mander of a ship or other vessel to transport Quak- ers into the colony . Anyone in possession of Quaker literature was to be fined . Unaware of these laws ...
... Quaker sect aroused in the Puritans of Massachu- setts . Although Quakers would later be associated with pacifism and charitable works , the seventeenth- century Puritans viewed them as wild - eyed radicals , deluded by Satan , and bent ...
... Quaker life , women who chose to remain single were fully accepted within the community . Although most Protestant denominations saw marriage and motherhood as the only appropriate calling for women , Quakers saw the ministry and social ...
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Abortion | 1 |
Addictive Substances | 8 |
African American Women | 14 |
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Women in Early America: Struggle, Survival, and Freedom in a New World Dorothy Auchter Mays Vista previa limitada - 2004 |
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American Indian Chronology: Chronologies of the American Mosaic Phillip M. White Vista de fragmentos - 2006 |