Colonial women
By: Niki Walker ; illustrations by Barbara Bedell.
Contributors: Bedell, Barbara, ill.
Series: The colonial people series
Publisher: Crabtree Pub.
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 32
Subjects: Women -- United States -- History -- Juvenile literature.; Women colonists -- United States -- Social conditions -- Juvenile literature.; Women colonists -- United States -- Social life and customs -- Juvenile literature.; Women -- History -- 17th century.; Women -- History -- 18th century.; Colonists.; United States -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 -- Juvenile literature.; United States -- Social conditions -- To 1865.; United States -- Social life and customs -- To 1775.; United States -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Genres: Juvenile literature.
Description: Introduces the different skills and often difficult lives of women on the farm, in business, and on the plantation as the owner's wife or as a slave in colonial America.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: A new way of life; title: Colonial women; title: Other women, other lives; title: A tough new life; title: Town and city women; title: On a plantation; title: Slave women; title: Educating girls; title: Courtship; title: Wedding bells; title: Family life; title: Jobs for women; title: Games and pastimes; title: Women's clothing; title: Notable colonial women.