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Mortar and Pestle for Pounding Rice

mortar and pestle for pounding grain was used in the process of threshing, or separating, grains of rice from the rice plant. Threshing was a very labor-intensive process. The mortar, or bottom piece, has a hollowed-out bowl where harvested rice hulls are

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Life Story: Thomas(ine) Hall (ca. 1600 – unknown)

arrived in the colony of Virginia, he went to work for John Tyos on a tiny tobacco plantation in Virginia. At first, Thomas continued to dress and do the work of a man, but at some point, he started to dress as a woman and take on traditional female labor

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Life Story: Dennis and Hannah Holland

servant in Maryland was hard. Indentured servants were at the mercy of their masters, the men and women who owned their labor contracts. Masters set work hours, assigned tasks, and determined how much food and rest a servant got. They were allowed to beat

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The Middle Passage

most women who went into labor while aboard a slave ship lost their lives. Mothers of young children had to struggle twice as hard to ensure not only their own survival but also that of their children, only to be separated at the slave markets when they

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Childcare in Oneida and Dutch Communities

cradleboard with the images of digging sticks and the Zuni pots for a lesson on the labor of women in North American Native communities. DOMESTICITY AND FAMILY; WORK, LABOR, AND ECONOMY For more resources relating to the history of slavery in New

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Patent for Cleaning and Curing Corn

Digging Stick. SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, AND MEDICINE; WORK, LABOR, AND ECONOMY For more resources relating to the practice of coverture, see Saving Washington: The New Republic and Early Reformers. For more resources relating to women in the English

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Life Story: The Gateras of Quito

Business. Combine this story with the images of digging sticks, Zuni pots, and the cradleboard for a lesson on the labor of women in Native communities. Native people across North and South America had a variety of responses to the arrival of European

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Legislating Reproduction and Racial Difference in Virginia

introduced the idea of legal racial difference by making the labor of all black women, enslaved or free, a taxable commodity, while white wives, daughters, and servants of plantation owners did not count toward a plantation owner’s taxable people. This was

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Vermeer’s Portrait of Wealth and Trade

perspective and layering techniques to create their own contemporary portrait of wealth and trade. WORK, LABOR, AND ECONOMY For more resources relating to Dutch trade, see the New World—New Netherland—New York curriculum guide. For more resources

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