A new way of life -- Colonial women -- Other women, other lives -- A tough new life -- Town and city women -- On a plantation -- Slave women -- Educating girls -- Courtship -- Wedding bells -- Family life -- Jobs for women -- Games and pastimes -- Women's clothing -- Notable colonial women.
Summary:
Introduces the different skills and often difficult lives of women on the farm, in business, and on the plantation as the owner's wife or as a slave in colonial America.
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