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Women of Colonial America: 13 Stories of Courage and Survival in the New World (Women of Action)
Chicago Review Press
ISBN13:
9781556524875
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Using a host of primary sources, author Brandon Marie Miller recounts the roles, hardships, and daily lives of Native American, European, and African women in 17th- and 18th-century colonial America. Hard work proved a constant for most women--they ensured their family's survival through their skills while others sold their labor or lived in bondage as indentured servants and slaves. Even in this world defined entirely by men, a world where no one thought it important to record a female's thoughts, women found ways to step forth. Elizabeth Ashbridge survived an abusive indenture to become a Quaker preacher. Anne Bradstreet penned epic poetry while raising eight children in the wilderness. Anne Hutchinson went toe-to-toe with Puritan authorities. Margaret Hardenbroeck Philipse built a trade empire in New Amsterdam. Martha Corey lost her life in the vortex of Salem's witch hunt. And Eve, a Virginia slave, twice ran away to freedom. With strength, courage, resilience, and resourcefulness, these women and many others played a vital role in the mosaic of life in colonial America--
- | Author: Brandon Marie Miller
- | Publisher: Chicago Review Press
- | Publication Date: February 01, 2016
- | Number of Pages: 256 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Hardcover
- | ISBN-10: 1556524870
- | ISBN-13: 9781556524875
- Author:
- Brandon Marie Miller
- Publisher:
- Chicago Review Press
- Publication Date:
- February 01, 2016
- Number of pages:
- 256 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Hardcover
- ISBN-10:
- 1556524870
- ISBN-13:
- 9781556524875