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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... poor , and more internal migration meant many of the poor had no family structure to rely on . The population of New York City in 1790 was 33,131 . Ten years later it was 96,373 . Much of this expansion was the result of immigration and ...
... poor women were provided with regular employment in the textile industry . Children were looked after in another room , where elderly women too infirm to spin provided care . The society pro- vided the women and children with breakfast ...
... poor in England slept on beds that were raised off the floor , but the average American in the seventeenth cen- tury slept on a pallet on the floor . The poor of England usually had reliable shelter , whereas immi- grants to America ...
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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 |