Two foreign visitors capture the spirit and culture of the new nation.
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This document illuminates the way the Dutch Orphanmasters’ Court protected the inheritance rights of young women, and one mother’s attempt to keep them from meddling in her affairs.
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The Virginia colony laws collected here demonstrate how the colonial government used legislation about women to shore up race-based slavery.
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This document details the trial of Jeane Gardiner, who was accused of witchcraft during the Bermuda hysteria of 1651–1655.
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