Dresses demonstrating the influence of mass media on daily life.
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This sampler and chatelaine reveal the skills and responsibilities of upper-class eighteenth-century women.
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The story of America’s first self-made Black female millionaire and how she built a beauty empire that celebrated and empowered Black women.
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Colonial women used spinning wheels like this one to create homespun thread that could be woven into fabric. In the lead-up to the American Revolution, spinning became an overtly political act, because it allowed women to avoid paying tax on imported British textiles and supported the general political protest against English policies.
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Objects made by the hands of women to raise consciousness and money for the abolition of slavery.
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Sources that illustrate the lives of women in the plantation system.
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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 is the story of a free Black orphan who ran afoul of the courts in New Amsterdam and was ultimately enslaved.
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