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Pages: 518
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-12-01 - Publisher: UNC Press Books

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Kathleen Brown examines the origins of racism and slavery in British North America from the perspective of gender. Both a basic social relationship and a model
Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs
Language: en
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Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs: Gender, Race, and Power in Colonial Virginia
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-01-01 - Publisher: Yale University Press

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In colonial times few Americans bathed regularly; by the mid-1800s, a cleanliness “revolution” had begun. Why this change, and what did it signify? A nation
Women Before the Bar
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Women before the Bar is the first study to investigate changing patterns of women's participation in early American courts across a broad range of legal actions
Liberty's Daughters
Language: en
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Authors: Mary Beth Norton
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Type: BOOK - Published: 1996 - Publisher: Cornell University Press

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Explores the lives of colonial women, particularly during the Revolutionary War years, arguing that eighteenth-century Americans had very clear notions of appro