Description
The settlers in early colonial Maryland needed to form a new legal system whilst remaining in-sync with the up to date laws of England. This book looks at how one group of settlers, women, negotiated their place in society by the use of this new legal system. Drawing on the work of Lois Green Carr and Lorena Walsh, this book begins with an understanding that women had more rights within the earliest years of the colony than they did in mother England. They used this status, together with a changing legal system, to establish a spot for themselves within the new society. How they did that is on the heart of this book.