By Nancy A. Hewitt
This choice of twenty-four unique essays by way of major students in American women's historical past highlights the latest very important scholarship at the key debates and destiny instructions of this well known and modern field.
• Covers the breadth of yankee Women's heritage, together with the colonial family members, marriage, overall healthiness, sexuality, schooling, immigration, paintings, patron tradition, and feminism.
• Surveys and evaluates the simplest scholarship on each very important period and subject.
• comprises accelerated bibliography of titles to steer additional study.
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If you are carefdl you may have two men for one female,” or “endeavour all you can to have your Number of Males exceed the females,” or “the number of women Exceeding [men] doeth much disparayes the whole Cargoe” (Royal African Company Instructions, 1692, 1694, 1698). In an attempt to explain to Royal African Company officials the large numbers of women he purchased, George Hingston wrote that “as yett wee find ye women generally Better than the men” (Hingston Journal, March 1678). Their instructions, then, often reflected the Company’s inability to dictate the terms of trade.
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