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 as wives and mothers, Colonial women took
care of the house and household by cooking, preserving food,
sewing, spinning, tending gardens, taking care of sick or injured
members of the household, and many other tasks. Students and
general readers will learn about women's roles in the family, women
and the law, women and immigration, women's work, women and
religion, women and war, and women and education, literature, and
recreation. The narrative chapters in this volume focus on women,
particularly white women, within the eastern region of the current
United States, the site of the first colonies. Chapter 1 discusses
women's roles within the family and household and how women's
experiences in the various colonies differed. Chapter 2 considers
women and the law and roles in courts and as victims of crime.
Chapter 3 looks at women and immigration--those who came with
families or as servants or slaves. Women's work is the subject of
Chapter 4. The focus is work within the home, preparing food,
sewing, taking care of children, and making household goods, or as
businesswomen or midwives. Women andreligion are discussed in
Chapter 5. Chapter 6 examines women's role in war. Women's
education is one focus of Chapter 7. Few Colonial women could read
but most women did receive an education in the arts of housewifery.
Chapter 7 also looks at women's contributions to literature and
their leisure time. Few women were free to pursue literary
endeavors, but many expressed their creativity through handiwork. A
chronology, selected bibliography, and historical illustrations
accompany the text.
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