Women's roles in seventeenth-century America /
In Colonial America, the lives of white immigrant, black slave, and American Indian women intersected. Economic, religious, social, and political forces all combined to induce and promote European colonization and the growth of slavery and the slave trade during this period. This volume provides the...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Westport, Conn. :
Greenwood Press,
2008.
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Full text (MFA users only) |
| ISBN: | 0313087067 9780313087066 1282361473 9781282361478 9786612361470 6612361476 |
| ISSN: | 1553-507X |
| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Summary: | In Colonial America, the lives of white immigrant, black slave, and American Indian women intersected. Economic, religious, social, and political forces all combined to induce and promote European colonization and the growth of slavery and the slave trade during this period. This volume provides the essential overview of American women's lives in the seventeenth century, as the dominant European settlers established their patriarchy. Women were essential to the existence of a new patriarchal society, most importantly because they were necessary for its reproduction. In addition to their roles. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xxviii, 183 pages) : illustrations |
| Format: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-175) and index. |
| Language Note: | English. |
| Series: | Women's roles in American history.
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