right, who in the colony was going to question her right to do exactly as she pleased?
Given her life’s work, it is fitting that the last known reference to Johanna in the government records is not her death notice but a court appearance she made at the
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tribute in the form of crops or currency. He could force them to construct forts and towns and work the mines and plantations. He could sexually exploit the women, and even sell the people who worked for him to other encomenderos. The horrors of life on
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an important partnership at the end of the 1600s.
The seventy-two enslaved people who survived the journey across the Atlantic were probably forced to work on sugar plantations in the Spanish colony of Cuba.
For more records of slaving voyages
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Museum of Art, Marquand Collection / Gift of Henry G. Marquand.
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Johannes Vermeer (1632–1675) was a Dutch painter who worked during the 1600s, a time when culture in the Dutch Republic flourished
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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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the richness of the land. Reports of corn fields that stretched for miles, forests full of fruit trees, and wetlands stocked with edible plants amazed readers back in Europe. They did not realize or consider that Indigenous women had worked and
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an unmarried white woman gives birth to the child of a black man, she will have to pay large fine or work for the church without payment for five years.
and the said fine of fifteen pounds, or whatever the woman shall be disposed of for, shall be
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began to work as a servant in the households of New Amsterdam’s white colonists when she was very young. This work allowed her to make money to suport herself and her family. But as a young woman of color in a mostly white community, Lisbeth was
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work she was made to do. She labored in the homes of those who enslaved her, cooking, cleaning, and performing any other domestic task she was assigned. She may have been forced to perform sex work. Malintzin was sold several times during the early
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with the work I was doing. I am bad. It does not seem right that people of God should entertain themselves with insignificant things.
I could tell that she was talking about me. I did not say anything and kept working. I don’t think religious people
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