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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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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communities.
Every trade item represented in the painting had its own journey from raw material to finished product. Assign students a research project where they dig deeper into the way one of the items in the painting was produced.
WORK, LABOR, AND
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Patent for Cleaning and Curing Corn.
Combine the image of the digging stick with any of the following for a lesson on the labor of women in Indigenous communities:
Childcare in Oneida and Dutch Communities
Women’s Labor Agreements
Revolution in
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injured or sick. Enslaved women like Dorothy were expected to do all of this work, and were also forced to labor alongside enslaved men building houses and roads for the colony. Life in New Amsterdam at this time was difficult for everybody, but enslaved
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: Malitzen (La Malinche), Life Story: Charlotte-Françoise Juchereau de Saint-Denis, and Marrying into the New World.
WORK, LABOR, AND ECONOMY
For more resources relating to women in New World, see New World—New Netherland—New York.
Source Notes
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circumstances, use any of the following resources: Life Story: Weetamoo, Life Story: Malitzen (La Malinche), Life Story: Johanna de Laet, and Marrying into the New World.
WORK, LABOR, AND THE ECONOMY
For more resources women and colonial trade see, New
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her dowry. It was a generous gift. As one of the largest encomiendas in New Spain, Tacuba would provide Isabel and her descendants with vast wealth. The grant of the encomienda territory included forced labor and tributes from Indigenous people. Isabel
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importance of women’s labor in providing food for communities.
Pair this resource with American Cookery to examine the development of local cuisine over time. How does food contribute to the development of identity?
Combine this resource with Populating
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Spanish colonial government.
Combine the image of the Zuni pots with the images of the digging stick, the cradleboard, and the story of the gateras for a lesson on the labor of women in Native communities.
Native people across North and South America
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