First Generations: Women in Colonial America

"A marvelously readable yet scholarly history" of American women—of European, Indigenous, and African backgrounds—in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries (Kirkus Reviews).

The European, Native American, and African women of seventeenth and eighteenth century America were wives, mothers, household managers, laborers, and rebels—and just as important as men in shaping the culture and history of their country.

In First Generations, Carol Berkin delves into the great variety of female ...