Bibliograph

Women of Colonial America, 13 stories of courage and survival in the New World, Brandon Marie Miller

Type

Label

Women of Colonial America, 13 stories of courage and survival in the New World, Brandon Marie Miller

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

resource.biographical

collective biography

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

resource.interestAgeLevel

Ages 12-17

resource.interestGradeLevel

Grades 7 and up

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Women of Colonial America

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

907651714

Responsibility statement

Brandon Marie Miller

Series statement

Women of action

Sub title

13 stories of courage and survival in the New World

Summary

"Using a host of primary sources, author Brandon Marie Miller recounts the roles, hardships, and daily lives of Native American, European, and African women in 17th- and 18th-century colonial America. Hard work proved a constant for most women--they ensured their family's survival through their skills while others sold their labor or lived in bondage as indentured servants and slaves. Even in this world defined entirely by men, a world where no one thought it important to record a female's thoughts, women found ways to step forth. Elizabeth Ashbridge survived an abusive indenture to become a Quaker preacher. Anne Bradstreet penned epic poetry while raising eight children in the wilderness. Anne Hutchinson went toe-to-toe with Puritan authorities. Margaret Hardenbroeck Philipse built a trade empire in New Amsterdam. Martha Corey lost her life in the vortex of Salem's witch hunt. And Eve, a Virginia slave, twice ran away to freedom. With strength, courage, resilience, and resourcefulness, these women and many others played a vital role in the mosaic of life in colonial America"--, Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

The Natural Inhabitants -- In This New Discovered Virginia : Pocahontas, A Life in Two Worlds; Cecily Jordan Farrar, "Ancient Planter" of Virginia -- Goodwives to New England : Anne Hutchinson, "A Woman Unfit for Our Society;" Anne Dudley Bradstreet, Puritan Poet; The Captivity of Mary Rowlandson -- Weary, Weary, Weary, O : Elizabeth Ashbridge, From Indentured Servant to Quaker Preacher -- Up to Their Elbows in Housewifery : Margaret Hardenbroeck Philipse, She-Merchant of New York; The Journey of Sarah Kemble Knight -- Daughters of Eve : Martha Corey, Accused of Witchcraft -- A Changing World : Eliza Lucas Pinckney, A Glimpse through Her Letterbook ; Eve, and Others, Belonging to the Randolphs; Christiana Campbell & Jane Vobe, Keeping a Busy Tavern -- A Tapestry of Lives

Target audience

adolescent

resource.variantTitle

Thirteen stories of courage and survival in the New World

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Creator