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Under certain circumstances, people who were held as slaves in the British colonies and early United States were able to sue for their right to be free from slavery. In the 17th through the 19th centuries, hundreds of “freedom suits” were filed and many slaves were able to successfully pet...
In Spain and the Spanish colonies in South America in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, gender roles were distinct and the opportunity gap was enormous. Catalina de Erauso compares the two roles through her memoir, “Lieutenant Nun,” where she recounts her life as a transvesti...
Bessie Coleman (January 26, 1892 – April 30, 1926) was an early American civil aviator. She was the first woman of African-American descent, and the first of Native American descent, to hold a pilot license. She achieved her international pilot license in 1921.Born to a family of share...
American Women Writers to 1800 advances our knowledge of early American culture. Including works by more than ninety women, many of whom have never before been published, this ambitious anthology captures the cultural and individual diversity of women's experiences in early America. It both ...
This approach was widely used in early studies, when little data was available about men's and women's plots and continues to be used in areas with household production systems. More recent approaches may consider men's and women's roles in decision-making as well as measures of women's ...
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She clearly valued knowledge, and could well be considered an early feminist. She was the first American poet, and her first collection of poems was the first book written by a woman to be published in the United States. Her work serves as a testament to the struggles of a Puritan wife ...
There are summary biographies of Susan Holder and Maria Sibylla Merian in the IN BRIEF section of She-philosopher.com. Two female archetypes influencing early-modern women who were active in the arts & sciences — such as Jane Barker, who compares herself to Semiramis in her poem, “On ...
But Hackett also died just a few years later, and Mary Ann moved with Henrietta to Washington DC after his death in 1870. In DC, Henrietta received a public education and passed the exams to become a teacher at the early age of fifteen. She taught first in Maryland and then in ...