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Women of Early America

Women of Early America AP US

9/5/02

Women during the colonial period experienced far less equality then they do today. Women were expected to completely submit to their husbands and tend to the household. However, the independence a woman enjoyed often depended heavily upon several factors. The society in which a woman lived, her social class, and her ideological upbringing controlled the amount of independence she experienced.

The amount of independence women had varied based on the society in which they lived. Some societies were harsher towards women than were others. Margaret Hardenbroek lived in the Dutch outpost of New Amsterdam where she acted as an agent to a cousin who was an Amsterdam trader. She established a successful trade business and eventually ventured into furs and was highly the successful. All the while she was readily accepted by h...

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