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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... married in their mid - twenties , whereas native - born girls in the seventeenth century married around age seventeen . Even women who did not arrive as indentured servants married later . If they left Europe when they reached adulthood ...
... marriage was transported across the ocean . If a slave marriage proved unsatisfactory to either or both of the people involved , they were free to declare themselves no longer married . Most slave weddings took place during the com ...
... married or one of the parties balked at mat- rimony , such women found themselves in a dire sit- uation . Financial ... married . In a society in which 95 per- cent of women married , less than 30 percent of the women who bore ...
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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 |