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First Generations: Women in Colonial America

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Carol Berkin’s multicultural history reconstructs the lives of American women within the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries-women from European, African, and Native backgrounds-and examines their varied roles as wives, mothers, household managers, laborers, rebels, and, in the long run, crucial forces in shaping the brand new nation’s culture and history.

This study of American women within the 17th and 18th centuries by historian Carol Berkin gives close attention to the lives of several women like Mary, who was once brought to Virginia as a slave in 1622. She married any other African, Antonio, and over the course in their 40-year marriage, they earned their freedom and established a 250-acre plantation before moving to Maryland looking for new land. Other black women were not so lucky and, as time progressed, laws restricting black freedom were codified. This study uses legal and other forms of records to light up the lives and experiences of these and other black, white, and Native American women.

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