The story of an enslaved Native woman caught up in the Salem witch hysteria.
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The story of a Puritan girl taken captive in a war with the French and Wabanaki.
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This drawing of the Mission San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo shows the setting of Spanish efforts to convert and Europeanize Native populations in Alta California.
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The story of a Tongva wise woman who led a rebellion against a Spanish mission in Alta California.
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The story of a Loyalist spy in New York who did everything she could to undermine the American war efforts.
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The story of the woman who was instrumental in Benedict Arnold’s plot to betray the Continental Army.
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The story of a camp follower who became a war hero and earned the first soldier’s pension ever awarded to a woman.
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These political cartoons illustrate how colonial women’s political action was received by the general public, and how the figures of women became potent political symbols.
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This poem by Phillis Wheatley demonstrates how enslaved and free Black people saw the American Revolution as an opportunity to end the systematic oppression of Black people in the colonies.
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This ledger records the biographical information about every enslaved or free Black person who evacuated New York with the British at the end of the war.
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