them around the Atlantic world. Around the year 1725, François Poulin de Francheville, a prominent businessman from New France, bought Angélique and brought her to work in his home in Montreal in New France.
When Marie came to Montreal, it was still a
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New France. The process of prepping, preserving, and preparing food took up most of the day for the colony’s women. Only women in wealthy families could afford to pay to have servants do this work for them.
Like other European colonists in the
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made the difficult journey across the Atlantic to live in the Puritan-friendly Massachusetts colony. They arrived in Boston in 1634.
Anne worked as a midwife in Boston, and she soon established close relationships with a large network of Puritan women
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analyze additional depictions of Pocahontas from works of art, film, and television.
Pair this resource with Life Story: Cockacoeske, another well-known Powhatan woman. How were both women’s lives changed by the arrival of the English in Virginia? How
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life in the early years of New France. In these excerpts, Marie describes the work of educating the Native girls of New France.
Marie’s letter is full of contradictions. For example, she says that the Native girls she instructs are free to come and go
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Wyandanch’s only heir. She was named the sunksquaw, or female sachem, of the Montaukett.
As sunksquaw, Quashawam worked hard to re-establish the Montaukett as the most powerful tribe in eastern Long Island. In January of 1664, she appears to have sent two
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as she wished.
Over the next twenty-five years, Sor Juana became famous for her poetry and prose on topics like love, religion, feminism, and women’s rights. Ultimately, her work drew criticism from the religious authorities, who were appalled that a
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Life Story: Tituba
"Look Into This Glass”
John W. Ehninger, Detail from "Look Into This Glass,” The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1902). Hathi
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Mayken Van Angola, Lucretia Albiecke van Angola, and the wife of Peter Tamboer all humbly request the government to release us from slavery so we can be together in our old age and earn our income with our work along with other
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Revolt and tells the story of a healing community. It has an asymmetrical design and is covered in clean, crisp lines, which indicates that the artist had time and comfort in which she could perfect her work. The red, black, and brown pigments used to
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