Angel Loggans ENGL-2110-301 Josh Reid October 11‚ 2012 The Role of Women in Early America A woman’s role often depended upon many factors including: status‚ wealth‚ religion‚ race‚ and colony of residence. Although the particulars of individuals’ circumstances varied from person to person there were many things that they shared. Unlike modern women‚ a woman during this period often bore an average of ten children of which only half lived to adulthood. Anne Bradstreet bore eight children
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“I do not believe in sex distinction in literature‚ law‚ politics‚ or trade or that modesty and virtue are more becoming to women than to men‚ but wish we had more of it everywhere”. This quote from Belva Lockwood‚ an American lawyer and reformer perfectly embodies the spirit of revolt among women in the early republic (Cameron Paul). Indeed‚ the US Revolutionary War is often defined as a struggle for independence rather than an attempt to redefine social roles and structure of society. Women’s
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Democratic Origins and Revolutionary Writers‚ 1776-1820 Benjamin Franklin (Painting courtesy Library of Congress) Thomas Paine (Portrait courtesy Library of Congress) James Fenimore Cooper (Photo courtesy Library of Congress) The hard-fought American Revolution against Britain (1775-1783) was the first modern war of liberation against a colonial power. The triumph of American independence seemed to many at the time a divine sign that America and her people were destined for greatness
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The Puritans and PuritanismMost of the early settlers were Puritans‚ a group of serious‚ religious people who advocated strict religious and moral principles. * They wanted to purify the English Church and to restore church worship to the "pure and unspotted" condition of its earlier days. * They opposed the elaborate rituals of the English Church. * They believed that the Bible was the revealed word of God‚ therefore‚ people should guide their daily behavior with the Bible.The Puritans brought
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Chapter 5 Social • Major population boom! o by 1775 there were 2.5 million people in 13 colonies o youthful and growing quickly • they were slowly moving westward past the Alleghenies • most populous colonies o Virginia o Massachusetts o Pennsylvania o North Carolina o Maryland • Cities o Philadelphia o New York o Boston o Charleston • Many races settled in America o Germans – fled religious persecution‚ for economy‚ and fleeing war mainly in Pennsylvania – Lutheran‚ very loyal
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Although some people choose not to discuss it‚ death is one of the biggest mysteries in the world. Since no one can be sure what happens after death‚ many theories have been presented throughout the years about this phenomenon. Today and throughout all of history‚ there have been many different groups that have had their own ideas about death. Specifically‚ in the late 1500s to the early 1800s‚ the Puritans‚ Revolutionaries‚ and Romantics each had their own different and unique views of death that
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writings. Is it believe that Jupiter Hammon is the first African American to have ever published a work of literature in the United States (Wikipedia); his poem "An Evening Thought: Salvation by Christ with Penitential Cries" was published in 1761. Phillis
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The View Towards Feminism and A Room of One’s Own Written in 1929‚ A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf has been broken apart into many different view points and meanings that in a whole‚ affect woman and/or artists. The interesting thing about Woolf’s piece‚ is that it’s an essay that uses fictional characters and narration that would later be used to debate whether it was completely a true feminist approach to women’s writing and money‚ or if wasn’t enough of a feminist approach‚
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Women Writers: Restoration and 18th Century Ballaster‚ Ros‚ Seductive Forms: Women’s Amatory Fiction from 1684–1740‚ Oxford: Clarendon Press‚ 1992‚; New York: Oxford University Press‚ 1992‚ Landry‚ Donna‚ The Muses of Resistance: Laboring-Class Women’s Poetry in Britain 1739–1796‚ Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press‚ 1990 Myers‚ Sylvia Harcstark‚ The Bluestocking Circle: Friendship and the Life of the Mind in Eighteenth-Century England‚ Oxford: Clarendon Press‚ 1990; New York: Oxford
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settled in America‚ they were treated brutally by the Americans. They used them for their favour and hardly treated them as human beings. They wanted to show their protest so they used literature as the weapon to show their protest. The poet Phillis Wheatley and orator Frederick Douglass were considered to be the beginners.Toni Morrision‚ Alice Walker etc followed their footsteps to show their protest. Chloe Anthony Wofford was born
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