This document details the trial of Jeane Gardiner, who was accused of witchcraft during the Bermuda hysteria of 1651–1655.
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Queen Isabella I’s instructions on the governance of Hispaniola in 1501 were the blueprint for the development of the Spanish colonies of the Americas.
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The Virginia colony laws collected here demonstrate how the colonial government used legislation about women to shore up race-based slavery.
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Excerpts from the French legal code governing enslaved people that deal specifically with enslaved women and reproduction.
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These three documents chronicle the efforts of enslaved woman Mayken van Angola to secure her freedom from the Dutch West India Company after thirty-four years of servitude.
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In this document, the Dutch government awards Sarah Roelfs Kierstede van Borsum a land grant in recognition of her services as a translator in meetings with the Lenni-Lenape.
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This document recounts how two wives of New Amsterdam councilmembers opened negotiations with English invaders in 1664.
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This is the story of a Montaukett sunksquaw who manipulated the colonial powers around her to solidify her status and her people’s security.
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This is the story of a free Black orphan who ran afoul of the courts in New Amsterdam and was ultimately enslaved.
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The story of one of the first enslaved women brought to New Netherland.
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