Hometown American History
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Hometown American HistoryWomen in the
Early Colonial Period
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Gravestone, Mary LattimerFarber Gravestone Collection
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Mrs. Elizabeth Freake and Her Baby Mary, 1676
Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA
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PrologueAnne Bradstreet
I am obnoxious to each carping tongue Who says my hand a needle better fits. A Poet’s Pen all scorn I should thus wrong, For such despite they cast on female wits. If what I do prove well, it won’t advance, They’ll say it’s stol’n, or else it was by chance.
But sure the antique Greeks were far more mild, Else of our Sex, why feigned they those nine And poesy made Calliope’s own child? So ‘mongst the rest they placed the Arts divine, But this weak knot they will full soon untie. The Greeks did nought but play the fools and lie.
Let Greeks be Greeks, and Women what they are. Men have precedency and still excel; It is but vain unjustly to wage war. Men can do best, and Women know it well. Preeminence in all and each is yours; Yet grant some small acknowledgement of ours.
And oh ye high flown quills that soar the skies, And ever with your prey still catch your praise, If e’er you deign these lowly lines your eyes, Give thyme or Parsley wreath, I ask no Bays. This mean and unrefined ore of mine Will make your glist’ring gold but more to shine.
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Hall-Parlor House PlanNew England
17th-18th centuries
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John Lewis Krimmel, Blind Man’s Bluff (1814)
Terra Foundation for American Art
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Law and Gender: AdulteryStatus
Married Woman and Single Man
Single Man and Single Woman
Married Man and Married Woman
Punishment
Whipping and/or Fine for Fornication
Death
Whipping and/or Fine for Fornication
Married Man and Unmarried Woman
Death
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The Gibbs Children
Museum of Fine Art, Boston (left and middle), and Clay Center, Charleston, WV (right)
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Robert Feke, Isaac Royall and His Family, 1741
Harvard University
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John Durand, The Rapalje Children, 1768
The New-York Historical Society
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“Dignifying the Seats”Litchfield Historical Society, Litchfield, CT
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Prudence Punderson,The First, Second, and Last Scene of Mortality
1776-1783Connecticut Historical Society
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Keep Within Compass, 1785-1805“Enter Not into the Way of the Wicked, and Go Not in the Path of E
Evil Men.”Winterthur Museum
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A Society of Patriotic Ladies, London, 1765
Library of Congress