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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... economic distress , they might pay another black family a few dollars a week to take in some of the children . A single woman might seek board with another family . Urban environments tended to attract recently freed slaves , who often ...
... economic position would automat- ically vote in lockstep with their husbands , render- ing the need for women's suffrage irrelevant . The founding fathers made no provisions for women to maintain separate legal , economic , or social ...
... economic assets in colonial America . In the labor - scarce American colonies , the work of a child between the ages of ten and eighteen was the most valuable economic com- modity most families had at their disposal . There was little ...
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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 |
Women in Early America: Struggle, Survival, and Freedom in a New World Dorothy A. Mays Sin vista previa disponible - 2004 |
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American Indian Chronology: Chronologies of the American Mosaic Phillip M. White Vista de fragmentos - 2006 |