Women of Colonial America: 13 Stories of Courage and Survival in the New World

Enlightenment - Age of Revolutions

Women of Colonial America: 13 Stories of Courage and Survival in the New World (Women of Action) Author: Miller, Brandon Marie Buy at Amazon | BookShop.org Time Period: Enlightenment Time Frame: 1600-1750 Geographic Area: North America Country: United States Topics: Colonial America Genre: Non Fiction, Biography Reading Age: Young Adult, Adult Format: Book Published: 2016 Women of Action series 1) Double Victory: How African American Women Broke Race and Gender Barriers to Help Win World War II 2) Women of the Frontier: 16 Tales of Trailblazing Homesteaders, Entrepreneurs, and Rabble-Rousers 3) Women Aviators: 26 Stories of Pioneer Flights, Daring Missions, and Record-Setting Journeys 4) Code Name Pauline: Memoirs of a World War II Special Agent 5) Women of Steel and Stone: 22 Inspirational Architects, Engineers, and Landscape Designers 6) Women in Space: 23 Stories of First Flights, Scientific Missions, and Gravity-Breaking Adventures 7) A World of Her Own: 24 Amazing Women Explorers and Adventurers 8) The Many Faces of Josephine Baker: Dancer, Singer, Activist, Spy 9) Women Heroes of the American Revolution: 20 Stories of Espionage, Sabotage, Defiance, and Rescue 10) She Takes a Stand: 16 Fearless Activists Who Have Changed the World 11) Women of Colonial America: 13 Stories of Courage and Survival in the New World 12) Marooned in the Arctic: The True Story of Ada Blackjack, the "Female Robinson Crusoe" 13) Women in Blue: 16 Brave Officers, Forensics Experts, Police Chiefs, and More 14) Women Heroes of World War II―the Pacific Theater: 15 Stories of Resistance, Rescue, Sabotage, and Survival 15) Seized by the Sun: The Life and Disappearance of World War II Pilot Gertrude Tompkins 16) Courageous Women of the Vietnam War: Medics, Journalists, Survivors, and More 17) This Noble Woman: Myrtilla Miner and Her Fight to Establish a School for African American Girls in the Slaveholding South 18) Women Heroes of the US Army: Remarkable Soldiers from the American Revolution to Today 19) Women Heroes of World War I: 16 Remarkable Resisters, Soldiers, Spies, and Medics

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In colonial America, hard work proved a constant for most women—some ensured their family's survival through their skills, while others sold their labor or lived in bondage as indentured servants or slaves. Yet even in a world defined entirely by men, a world where few 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 her poems 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. And Eve, a Virginia slave, twice ran away to freedom.

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 the 17th and 18th centuries. With strength, courage, resilience, and resourcefulness, these women and many others played a vital role in the mosaic of life in the North American colonies.

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