Women, Family, and Community in Colonial America: Two Perspectives

by Linda Speth

Overview

The influence of women in the colonial family and the community is examined using tax and probate records of southside Colonial Virginia.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781135817794
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	04/15/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	88
File size:	809 KB

About the Author

Linda Speth, Alison Duncan Hirsch

Table of Contents

Contents
Introduction

• More Than Her “Thirds”: Wives and Widows in Colonial Virginia
• The Thrall/Divorce Case: A Family Crisis in Eighteenth-Century Connecticut
• Reference Notes Included