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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.
Love of Freedom: Black Women in Colonial and Revolutionary New England. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199779833. Beatty, Jacqueline (2013). "Ladies Association of Philadelphia". Berkin, Carol (1997). First Generations: Women in Colonial America. Macmillan. ISBN 9780809016068. Berkin, Carol (2005).
Lydia Taft was the first woman known to vote legally in Colonial America after her husband died and son left her; she was granted permission to vote through a Massachusetts town meeting. [8] 1762 Ann Smith Franklin was the first female newspaper editor in America. [9] 1776
She is one of only eleven American women known to have supported themselves as printers before the American Revolution. [71] Elizabeth Timothy (30 June 1702 – April 1757) was a prominent colonial American printer and newspaper publisher in the colony of South Carolina who worked for Benjamin Franklin. She was the first woman in America to ...
American women achieved several firsts in the professions in the second half of the 1800s. In 1866, Lucy Hobbs Taylor became the first American woman to receive a dentistry degree. [158] In 1878, Mary L. Page became the first woman in America to earn a degree in architecture when she graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ...
Official portrait of Kamala Harris, 2021. 1756: Lydia Taft is the first woman to vote legally in Colonial America. [1]1821: Emma Willard founds the Troy Female Seminary in New York; it is the first school in the country founded to provide young women with a college-level education.
Hutchinson is a key figure in the history of religious freedom in England's American colonies and the history of women in ministry, challenging the authority of the ministers. She is honored by Massachusetts with a State House monument calling her a "courageous exponent of civil liberty and religious toleration". [ 1 ]
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.