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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This is the story of a mother and daughter in Maryland who became trapped in a perpetuating cycle of indenture and transgression.
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The four poems collected here demonstrate the hardship of living in a time when the mortality rate was much higher than today.
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This poem by Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz highlights the hypocrisy of gender relations in Spanish colonial society.
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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 illustrates how women in English society were economically marginalized by the common law practice of coverture.
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This document reveals how Ursuline nuns approached the task of educating French and Native girls in New France.
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This court document shows how a married woman in the Spanish colonies used her marriage contract to escape an unhappy marriage.
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