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

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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Biographical sketches and collective portraits reconstruct the experiences of Native American, European, and African women of seventeenth- and eighteenth-centur

Women and the Law of Property in Early America