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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... society to distribute tickets to soup kitchens and firewood . Perhaps most importantly , they arranged employment for impov- erished women . Knowing that many women were unable to work outside the home because of their small children ...
... society had become far more socially stratified and concerned with emulating the qualities of gentility found in Europe . The Early Years The early settlers of America were not characteris- tic of the steeply hierarchical society of ...
... society's poor widows . In its first year the society provided assistance to ninety - eight widows and 223 children . Isabella's connections with wealthy New York families proved to be a valuable asset , because the organization was not ...
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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 |