The story of a conservative activist who organized a powerful anti-ERA movement.
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This is the story of a well-born Dutch woman who became a powerful businessperson in New Netherland.
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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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One of New Netherland’s first settlers recounts her earliest memories of life in the colony.
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The cradleboard and "loopwagen" allowed Oneida and Dutch women to work while still keeping their children safe and close by. They symbolize the double duty all mothers in the early colonial period had to do.
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This document recounts how two wives of New Amsterdam councilmembers opened negotiations with English invaders in 1664.
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In this document, the Dutch government awards Sarah Roelfs Kierstede van Borsum a land grant in recognition of her services as a translator in meetings with the Lenni-Lenape.
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This beautiful painting demonstrates the wealth, power, and extent of the trade network of the Dutch Republic in the 1600s. A companion art activity accompanies this resource.
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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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The story of the first woman to make a journey to the Americas for scientific purposes and one of the leading entomologists of the Enlightenment. A companion art activity accompanies this resource.
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