history book
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Analytical Paper #1 Tues/Thurs 8am
First Generation Women in Colonial America
In the book First Generation Women in Colonial America Carol Berkin shows us the diversity of the women living in the American colonies. They lived among race, region, religion, and class. Even though they were divided among those qualities all of the women except the Native American females were treated very poorly. Women were known to men as property and were not treated well unlike the Native American women.
Native Americans and the colonist were always fighting over property, food, and whatever other reason they could possibly find to fight one another. When they fought they had one thing in common, they kidnapped as many people as possible. When the Englishmen captured the Native Americans they would either sell them into slavery, kill them, or were fled westward never being able to farm on their homeland again. In the book, (pg 54), they explain how the Indians invaded the town of Lancaster, Massachusetts, but very few Indian victories were the outcome of these disputes. By mid-July of 1676 a thousand personals were taken from the Algonquin tribes. Even though the colonists were the ones who came out on top in majority of the disputes the Native Americans were able to kidnap some female colonists. The Native Americans would not sale them into slavery they would just keep them around in their camps. They did not beat them like, the Englishmen back in the colonies, and they would treat them much better than they were use to back home.
In the American colonies the white women were known a property. In the book it explains how in the colonies the ratio of women to men was very imbalanced. Unmarried women were certain to find their future husbands. Many marriages were often held back because of the term of indentured law. Many of the immigrant women were not allowed to marry until they were in their mid twenties. As Berkins explains in the book, (pg 7),
Analytical Paper #1 Tues/Thurs 8am
First Generation Women in Colonial America
In the book First Generation Women in Colonial America Carol Berkin shows us the diversity of the women living in the American colonies. They lived among race, region, religion, and class. Even though they were divided among those qualities all of the women except the Native American females were treated very poorly. Women were known to men as property and were not treated well unlike the Native American women.
Native Americans and the colonist were always fighting over property, food, and whatever other reason they could possibly find to fight one another. When they fought they had one thing in common, they kidnapped as many people as possible. When the Englishmen captured the Native Americans they would either sell them into slavery, kill them, or were fled westward never being able to farm on their homeland again. In the book, (pg 54), they explain how the Indians invaded the town of Lancaster, Massachusetts, but very few Indian victories were the outcome of these disputes. By mid-July of 1676 a thousand personals were taken from the Algonquin tribes. Even though the colonists were the ones who came out on top in majority of the disputes the Native Americans were able to kidnap some female colonists. The Native Americans would not sale them into slavery they would just keep them around in their camps. They did not beat them like, the Englishmen back in the colonies, and they would treat them much better than they were use to back home.
In the American colonies the white women were known a property. In the book it explains how in the colonies the ratio of women to men was very imbalanced. Unmarried women were certain to find their future husbands. Many marriages were often held back because of the term of indentured law. Many of the immigrant women were not allowed to marry until they were in their mid twenties. As Berkins explains in the book, (pg 7),