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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... tion against smallpox was required of all recruits into the army . The decision was more difficult for civil- ians . Because inoculation itself carried risk , many mothers chose not to inoculate themselves or their children . Diaries ...
... tion was rarely more than 1 percent in any town . Most Jewish women in the colonies married around age twenty - three . The small Jewish popula- tion made finding a husband difficult , and a num- ber of women chose to remain spinsters ...
... tion business . Eliza had a strong entrepreneurial instinct . She maintained a correspondence with an agent in London for the marketing of her planta- tion's commodities . She maintained an excellent library and became something of a ...
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Addictive Substances | 8 |
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 |