Preface for Instructors Contents Special Features Introduction for Students Chapter 1: America in the World, to 1650 Native American Women Indigenous Peoples before 1492 The Pueblo Peoples The Iroquois Confederacy Native Women''s Worlds Reading into the Past: Two Sisters and Acoma Origins Europeans Arrive Early Spanish Expansion Spain''s Northern Frontier Fish and Furs in the North Early British Settlements African Women and the Atlantic Slave Trade Women in West Africa The Early Slave Trade Racializing Slavery African Slavery in the Americas Conclusion: Many Beginnings Chapter Review PRIMARY SOURCES: European Images of Native American Women Theodor Galle, America (c. 1580) Indians Planting Corn, from Theodor de Bry, Great Voyages (1590) Canadian Iroquois Women Making Maple Sugar, from Joseph-François Lafitau, Moeurs des Sauvages Amériquains (1724) John White, Theire sitting at meate (c. 1585-1586) Theodor deBry, Theire sitting at meate (1590), based on a drawing by John White John White, A Chief Lady of Pomeiooc and Her Daughter John Beverley, A Woman and a Boy Running After Her (1705) ohn White, Eskimo Woman (1577) P ocahontas Convinces Her Father, Chief Powhatan, to Spare the Life of Captain John Smith, from John Smith, Generall Historie of Virginia (1612) Pocahontas (1616) Notes Suggested References Chapter 2: Colonial Worlds, 1607-1750 A Native New World Southern British Colonies British Women in the Southern Colonies African Women Northern British Colonies The Puritan Search for Order: The Family and the Law Disorderly Women Women''s Work and Consumption Patterns Dissenters from Dissenters: Women in Pennsylvania Reading into the Past: Trial of Anne Hutchinson Reading into the Past: Jane Fenn Hoskens , Quaker Preacher Beyond the British Settler Colonies New Netherland New France New Spain Native Grounds of the North American Interior Conclusion: The Diversity of American Women Chapter Review PRIMARY SOURCES: By and About Colonial Women Laws on Women and Slavery Laws of Virginia (1643, 1662) Legal Proceedings Michael Baisey''s Wife (1654) Judith Catchpole (1656) Mrs. Agatha Stubbings (1645) Witchcraft Testimony Testimony of John Porter and Lydia Porter v. Sarah Bibber (June 29, 1692) Testimony of Joseph Fowler v. Sarah Bibber (June 29, 1692) Testimony of Thomas Jacobs and Mary Jacobs v. Sarah Bibber (June 29, 1692) Answer of Mary Bradbury (September 9, 1692) Testimony of Thomas Bradbury for Mary Bradbury (July 28, 1692) Newspaper Advertisements South Carolina Gazette, Charleston (October 22, 1744) South Carolina Gazette, Charleston (December 23, 1745) Boston Gazette (April 28, 1755) Boston Gazette (June 20, 1735) Letters Eliza Lucas Pinckney, To Miss Bartlett Elizabeth Sprigs, To Mr. John Sprigs White Smith in White Cross Street near Cripple Gate London (1756) PRIMARY SOURCES: Depictions of Family in Colonial America Elizabeth Freake and Child (1674) Johannes and Elsie Schuyler (ca.

1720s) The Potter Family (cd. 1740) Mestizo Family (c. 1715) Mulatto Family (c. 1715) Indian Family (c. 1715) Notes Suggested References Chapter 3: Mothers and Daughters of the Revolution, 1750-1810 Background to Revolution, 1754-1775 Social Change in the Eighteenth Century The Growing Confrontation Liberty''s Daughters: Women and the Emerging Crisis Reading into the Past: Hannah Griffitts, The Female Patriots, Address''d to the Daughters of Liberty in America (1768) Women and the Face of War, 1775-1783 Choosing Sides: Native American and African American Women White Women: Pacifists, Tories, and Patriots Maintaining the Troops: The Women Who Served Revolutionary Era Legacies A Changing World for Native American Women African American Women: Freedom and Slavery White Women: An Ambiguous Legacy Limited Citizenship: White Women''s Legal Status and Education Women and Religion Reading into the Past: Ona Judge''s Escape (1796) Conclusion: To the Margins of Political Action Chapter Review PRIMARY SOURCES: Gendering Images of the Revolution A Society of Patriotic Ladies (1774) Miss Fanny''s Maid (1770) The Female Combatants (1776) Edward Savage, Liberty in the Form of the Goddess of Youth Giving Support to the Bald Eagle (1796) Samuel Jennings, Liberty Displaying the Arts and Sciences (1792) PRIMARY SOURCES: Phillis Wheatley, Poet and Slave Portrait Scipio Moorhead, Phillis Wheatley (1773) Letters To Arbour Tanner (1772) To Rev. Samson Occom (1774) Poems On Being Brought from Africa to America (1772) To the Right Honourable William, Earl of Dartmouth, His Majesty''s Principal Secretary of State for North America PRIMARY SOURCES: Education and Republican Motherhood A Peculiar Mode of Education Benjamin Rush, Thoughts upon Female Education (1787) All That Independence Which Is Proper to Humanity Judith Sargent Murray, On the Equality of the Sexes (1790) Notes Suggested References Chapter 4: Pedestal, Loom, and Auction Block, 1800-1860 The Ideology of True Womanhood Christian Motherhood A Middle-Class Ideology Domesticity in a Market Age Reading into the Past: Catharine Beecher, The Peculiar Responsibilities of the American Woman Women and Wage Earning From Market Revolution to Industrial Revolution The Mill Girls of Lowell The End of the Lowell Idyll At the Bottom of the Wage Economy Women, Slavery, and the South Southern Native Americans and U.S. Removal Policy Plantation Patriarchy Plantation Mistresses Non-elite White Women Enslaved Women Reading into the Past: Beloved Children: Cherokee Women Petition the National Council Reading into the Past: Mary Boykin Chesnut , Slavery a Curse to Any Land Conclusion: True Womanhood and the Reality of Women''s Lives Chapter 4 Review PRIMARY SOURCES: Prostitution in New York City, 1858 William W.

Sanger, The History of Prostitution: Its Extent, Causes, and Effects throughout the World (1858) PRIMARY SOURCES: Mothering under Slavery Documents The Planter''s Guide and Family Book of Medicine (1848) Fannie Moore Remembers Her Mother and Grandmother (1937) Photographs Fannie Moore, Age 88 (ca. 1937) Rosemary Plantation Photo Album (ca. 1890s-1910s) Advertisements for Wet Nurses City Gazette and Daily Advertiser (October 28, 1795) The Southern Patriot (May 10, 1842) The Charleston Mercury (June 7, 1856) Antebellum Slave Narrative Harriet Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861) PRIMARY SOURCES: Godey''s Lady''s Book The Constant, or the Anniversary Present (1851) The Teacher (1844) Purity (1850) Cooks (1852) Shoe Shopping (1848) PRIMARY SOURCES: Early Photographs of Factory Operatives and Slave Women Four Women Mill Workers (1860) Two Women Mill Workers (1860) Amoskeag Manufacturing Company Workers (1854) The Hayward Family''s Slave Louisa with Her Legal Owner (c. 1858) Thomas Easterly, Family with Their Slave Nurse (c. 1850) Timothy O''Sullivan, Plantation in Beaufort, South Carolina (1862) Notes Suggested References Chapter 5: Shifting Boundaries: Expansion, Reform, and Civil War, 1840-1865 An Expanding Nation, 1843-1861 Overland by Trail The Underside of Expansion: Native Women and Californianas The Gold Rush Reading Into the Past: Narrative of Mrs. Rosalía Vallejo Leese (1883) Antebellum Reform Expanding Woman''s Sphere: Maternal, Moral, and Temperance Reform Exploring New Territory: Radical Reform in Family and Sexual Life Crossing Political Boundaries: Abolitionism Entering New Territory: Women''s Rights Reading into the Past: Sojourner Truth , I Am as Strong as Any Man Civil War, 1861-1865 Women and the Impending Crisis Women''s Involvement in the War Emancipation Conclusion: Reshaping Boundaries, Redefining Womanhood Chapter Review PRIMARY SOURCES: Female Labor in the Gold Rush Economy