First generations : women in colonial America / Carol Berkin.
The Indian, European, and African women of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century America were defenders of their native land, pioneers on the frontier, willing immigrants, and courageous slaves. They were also - as earlier scholars tended to overlook - as important as men in shaping American culture a...
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New York :
Hill and Wang,
1996.
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Table of Contents:
- Ch. 1. Immigrants to Paradise: White Women in the Seventeenth-Century Chesapeake
- Ch. 2. Goodwives and Bad: New England Women in the Seventeenth Century
- Ch. 3. The Sisters of Pocahontas: Native American Women in the Centuries of Colonization
- Ch. 4. In a "Babel of Confusion": Women in the Middle Colonies
- Ch. 5. The Rhythms of Labor: African-American Women in Colonial Society
- Ch. 6. The Rise of Gentility: Class and Regional Differences in the Eighteenth Century
- Ch. 7. "Beat of Drum and Ringing of Bell": Women in the American Revolution
- Epilogue. Fair Daughters of Columbia: White Women in the New Republic.