Women in Early America / / Thomas A. Foster.
Tells the fascinating stories of the myriad women who shaped the early modern North American world from the colonial era through the first years of the RepublicWomen in Early America, edited by Thomas A. Foster, goes beyond the familiar stories of Pocahontas or Abigail Adams, recovering the lives an...
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| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. Doña Teresa de Aguilera y Roche before the Inquisition
- 2. "Women Are as Knowing Therein as the Men"
- 3. Women as Witches, Witches as Women
- 4. Servant Women and Sex in the Seventeenth- Century Chesapeake
- 5. Rebecca Kellogg Ashley
- 6. Womanly Masters
- 7. Women at the Crossroads
- 8. The Agrarian Village World of Indian Women in the Ohio River Valley
- 9. Loyalist Women in British New York City, 1776-1783
- 10. "I Knew That If I Went Back to Virginia, I Should Never Get My Liberty"
- 11. "The Need of Their Genius"
- About the Contributors
- Index