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Champion became pregnant and made lengthy attempts to hide her pregnancy. At the time, adultery itself was sometimes punishable by death. The baby was born sometime in late 1631 or early 1632 and subsequently died. Champion and Gallopin were accused of causing the death of the infant and were charged with murder and concealing the death of the ...
As time passed, African American women were forced to work in the fields, jobs that were known as part of the men's role in American and European society, as well as perform domestic duties. Black women were also seen as a way to produce native-born slaves. [10] There were class, race and gender structures in Colonial America.
[citation needed] Later, upon the death of her second husband, George Yeardley, Flowerdew became one of the wealthiest women in Virginia. [8] Upon her death, the estate was transferred to her children despite the efforts of her third husband to claim it. [8] [9] Flowerdew was named one of the Virginia Women in History by the Library of Virginia ...
Colonial Place is a residential neighborhood in Norfolk, Virginia. It is a peninsula bordered by 38th Street on the south, and surrounded on three sides by the Lafayette River . It is a relatively racially mixed area that includes mostly single family homes and a few apartment buildings.
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This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:American colonial people. It includes American colonial people that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent.
The Colonial Parkway murders were the serial murders of at least ten people in the U.S. state of Virginia between 1986 and 1989. [1] The killings were associated with the Colonial Parkway , a 22-mile long thoroughfare that cuts through the Colonial National Historical Park and connects Jamestown , Williamsburg and Yorktown .
Martha Moore Ballard (February 20, 1735 – May 7, 1812) was an American midwife, healer, and diarist.Unusual for the time, Ballard kept a diary with thousands of entries over nearly three decades, which has provided historians with invaluable insight into colonial frontier-women's lives.