Depictions of Pocahontas
This image of a mortar and pestle evokes and illustrates the agricultural techniques brought to the English colonies by enslaved women.
Anne Hutchinson
This image of a mortar and pestle evokes and illustrates the agricultural techniques brought to the English colonies by enslaved women.
Tobacco Brides
This image of a mortar and pestle evokes and illustrates the agricultural techniques brought to the English colonies by enslaved women.
Populating the Colonies
Excerpts from the French legal code governing enslaved people that deal specifically with enslaved women and reproduction.
Choosing Enslavement in Texas
Choosing Enslavement in Texas Document Text Summary De white folks said dat de free niggers was ruinin’ de other slaves. Mammy was called a free woman by her master. Mawster Jack Hamilton brought her to Texas f’om Randolph County, Alabama, Dey come to Texas in 1847. Little befo’ de beginnin’ ob de Civil War mammy left de Hamilton place, and hired out to other white folks. Mawster Jack said dat he wouldn’t hold no claim gainst her ‘cause he didn’t believe in slavery. But befo’ mammy left Mawster Jacks’s place I was bawn in a box cabin near de big house. White people thought that the existence of free Black people made enslaved people think they should be free. My mom’s enslaver considered her free. He brought her to Texas from Alabama in 1847. Before the Civil
Life Story: Deborah Squash
The story of a woman enslaved by George Washington who self-emancipated during the war.
Life Story: Nansi Wiggins
The story of a Black woman who rose from plantation slave to plantation mistress in colonial Florida.
Life Story: Tituba
The story of an enslaved Native woman caught up in the Salem witch hysteria.
Life Story: McLennan’s Enslaved Woman
The story of a woman for sale in colonial New York.
Life Story: Sarah
The story of an enslaved black woman caught up in the hysteria of the 1741 slave uprising.
