First Generations: Women in Colonial America |  | Author: Carol Berkin
Publisher: Hill and Wang
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 9,433
Languages: English (Unknown), English (Original Language), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1st Pbk. Ed
Pages: 256
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 8.3 x 5.4 x 0.7
ISBN: 0809016060
EAN: 9780809016068
ASIN: 0809016060
Publication Date: July 1, 1997
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Product Description
Carol Berkin's multicultural history reconstructs the lives of American women in 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, ultimately, critical forces in shaping the new nation's culture and history.
Amazon.com Review
This study of American women in the 17th and 18th centuries by historian Carol Berkin gives close attention to the lives of several women like Mary, who was brought to Virginia as a slave in 1622. She married another African, Antonio, and over the course of their 40-year marriage, they earned their freedom and established a 250-acre plantation before moving to Maryland in search of 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 types of records to illuminate the lives and experiences of these and other black, white, and Native American women.
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