This sampler and chatelaine reveal the skills and responsibilities of upper-class eighteenth-century women.
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The story of a Black woman who rose from plantation slave to plantation mistress in colonial Florida.
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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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This object illustrates how women consumers helped boost the new nation’s economy.
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A new American folk art is born from an abundance of cotton and the new textile mills.
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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 image of a mortar and pestle evokes and illustrates the agricultural techniques brought to the English colonies by enslaved women.
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This is the story of a sachem of the Pocassett people who led her warriors in support of Metacom/King Philip’s war against the Puritans.
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This image of a mortar and pestle evokes and illustrates the agricultural techniques brought to the English colonies by enslaved women.
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This image of a mortar and pestle evokes and illustrates the agricultural techniques brought to the English colonies by enslaved women.
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