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PREFACE ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS PART 1 A NEW WORLD: THE 17TH AND 18TH CENTURIES 1 First Encounters NARRANGANSETT WOMEN, Roger Williams, 1643 WOMEN'S LIVES AMONG THE DELAWARE, John Heckewelder, 1819 IROQUOIS WOMEN IN GOVERNMENT, Pierre de Charlevoix, 1721 A NEW ENGLAND CAPTIVITY, Mary Rowlandson, 1681 LIFE AMONG THE SENECA, Mary Jemison, 1824 THE FIRST SHIP, A Chinook Tale 2 Well-Ordered Families HUSBANDS AND WIVES, Benjamin Wadsworth, 1712 EVANGELICAL CHILD-REARING, Susanna Wesley, 1732 TO IMPROVE IN EVERY VIRTUE, Eliza Pinckney, 1750s TIED HAND AND FOOT, Esther Burr, 1756-1757 AN ABOMINABLE WICKEDNESS, Abigail Bailey, 1815 A DECREE ON SEDUCTION, New Spain, 1752 3 The Colonial Economy LAWS ON SLAVE DESCENT, Virginia and Maryland, 1662-1692 SKILLED SLAVES IN MARYLAND, The Maryland Gazette, 1748-1763 AN INDENTURED SERVANT'S COMPLAINT, Elizabeth Sprigs, 1756 APPRENTICESHIP IN PENNSYLVANIA, List of Indentures, 1771-1773 ADVENTURE SCHOOLS, Advertisements, 1750s-1770s A MAINE MIDWIFE, Martha Ballard, 1785 4 Women and the Law AN ANTENUPTIAL CONTRACT, Massachusetts, 1653 DIVORCE IN NEW ENGLAND, Connecticut, 1655-1678 A SEPARATION DECISION, Maryland, 1680 FEME SOLE TRADER ACTS, South Carolina, 1712 and 1744 MALEFACTORS AND COMPLAINANTS, Massachusetts, 1675-1680 WIDOWS, WILLS, AND DOWER RIGHTS, Virginia, 1642, and New York, 1721-1759 WOMEN'S ESTATES, Massachusetts, 1664, and New York, 1747-1759 ACCUSATIONS AGAINST ELIZABETH MORSE, Massachusetts, 1679-1680 5 Religious Experiences A SPIRITUAL AUTOBIOGRAPHY, Anne Bradstreet, ca. 1670 ANNE HUTCHINSON'S TRIAL, Massachusetts Bay, 1637 AN EPISTLE TO QUAKER WOMEN, Lancashire Women's Meeting, 1675 A REMARKABLE EXPERIENCE OF AWAKENING, David Brainerd, 1746 NARRATIVE OF OLD ELIZABETH, A Former Slave Recalls Her Conversion Experience of the 1770s 6. The Revolutionary Era AN ADDRESS TO GEORGE III, Phyllis Wheatley, 1768 A CAROLINA PATRIOT, Eliza Wilkinson, 1782 A LOYALIST WIFE, Grace Galloway, 1778-1779 REMEMBER THE LADIES, Abigail Adams, 1776 THOUGHTS UPON FEMALE EDUCATION, Benjamin Rush, 1787 EXCELLENCY IN OUR SEX, Judith Sargent Murray, 1790 Suggestions for Further Reading PART 2 THE YOUNG NATION, 1800-1860 7 The Middle Class: Domestic Lives MATRMONIAL RISKS, Emma Willard, 1815 THE DEFERENTIAL WIFE, Caroline Gilman, 1838 SYSTEM AND ORDER, Catharine Beecher, 1841 FIRST TO NONE, Catharine M. Sedgwick, 1828 THE WIDOWED STATE, Sarah Connell Ayer, 1832-1833 8 The School and the Mill RULES OF THE SCHOOL, Eliza Ann Mulford, 1814 A RATIONALE FOR FEMLE EDUCATION, Emma Willard, 1819 A CHOCTAW MISSION SCHOOL, Miss Burnham's Report, 1824 REPORTS ON WESTERN SCHOOLS, Letters from Teachers, 1847 RULES OF THE MILL, Lowell and Lancaster, 1820-1840 A LETTER FROM LOWELL, Harriet Farley, 1844 A SPIRIT OF PROTEST, The Voice of Industry, 1846 9 Western Frontiers CROSSING THE PLAINS, Amelia Stewart Knight, 1853 A NORWEGIAN IMMIGRANT I