The Colonial Mosaic: American Women 1600-1760 (Young Oxford History of Women in the United States)
By Jane Kamensky.
Description
The story of colonial settlement is often told as if men were the only actors, but women--as wives, agricultural workers, domestic servants, members of religious congregations, community builders, and mothers of a new generation--were crucial to European settlements just as women in Native American groups were to theirs. Colonial "women's work" was hard, physical labor. In the South, the urgency of farming crops for export stretched a woman's workday from sunrise to sunset (and beyond). It was not much different in New England, though the goal was more often to maintain ...
ISBN(s)
0195080157, 9780195080155
