It is virtually impossible to generalize about the degree to which women in early America were free. What, if anything, did enslaved black women in the South ha

This volume fills a gap in traditional women's history books by offering fascinating details of the lives of early American women and showing how these women ad

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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 Republic

Indian, European, and African women of seventeenth and eighteenth-century America were defenders of their native land, pioneers on the frontier, willing immigra