FIRST GENERATIONS

Indian, European, and African women of seventeenth and eighteenth-century America were defenders of their native land, pioneers on the frontier, willing immigrants, and courageous slaves. They were also - as traditional scholarship tends to omit - as important as men in shaping American culture and history. This remarkable work is a gripping portrait that gives early-American women their proper place in history.

Carol Berkin is professor of history at Baruch College and the CUNY Graduate Center.

Preface
Immigrants to Paradise: White Women in the Seventeenth-Century Chesapeake	p. 3
Goodwives and Bad: New England Women in the Seventeenth Century	p. 21
The Sisters of Pocahontas: Native American Women in the Centuries of Colonization	p. 52
In a "Babel of Confusion": Women in the Middle Colonies	p. 79
The Rhythms of Labor: African-American Women in Colonial Society	p. 103
The Rise of Gentility: Class and Regional Differences in the Eighteenth Century	p. 129
"Beat of Drum and Ringing of Bell": Women in the American Revolution	p. 165
Fair Daughters of Columbia: White Women in the New Republic	p. 195
Bibliographical Essay	p. 207
Index	p. 229
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