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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... court . In cases of mutually agreed marital separation , custody deci- sions were negotiated between the couple . Separa- tions and divorces were rare owing to the expense of maintaining two households . More commonly , one spouse ...
... court within each colony . The American colonies inherited their system of laws from England , but the legal process was administered by men who had little for- mal legal training . With almost no attorneys among the early settlers ...
... court's attention via her husband's authoriza- tion . Naturally , this presented a problem if a woman had a legal ... court could appeal to a chancery court , which was governed by equity law , rather than common law . The judge at the ...
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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 |