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

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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

They baked New England's Thanksgiving pies, preached their faith to crowds of worshippers, spied for the patriots during the Revolution, wrote that human bondag

In early America, married women had no rights under law. They belonged to their husbands. Their voices were not heard in public. But with the War of Independenc