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 mother and daughter in Maryland who became trapped in a perpetuating cycle of indenture and transgression.
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’s childhood, the Montaukett, Shinnecock, Niantic, English, Dutch, and others competed for control of eastern Long Island, which made life in the area very unstable. Wyandanch made an alliance with the English, and in return, the English named him the alliance
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This 1522 illustration of the horrors of the "encomienda" system highlights the way women and children were particularly vulnerable to abuse by their Spanish overlords.
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: published by I.F.W. Des Barres. Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec.
Marie-Josèphe Angélique was born a Black enslaved person in Portugal around the year 1705. During her childhood she was bought and sold by different masters, and moved with
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raised in a family of famous publishers and artists that had connections all over Europe.
Maria Sibylla enjoyed a very privileged childhood. Along with the traditional girl’s education of reading, writing, and household tasks, she learned painting and
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devout Catholic and had been since childhood. Teresa wrote a twenty-eight-page document identifying all of her enemies by name and laying out exactly why their testimony was biased. Without ever being told who was speaking against her, she was able to
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