Daughters of Canaan: A Saga of Southern WomenIn her study of southern women's experiences across the centuries, Wolfe considers many ordinary lives, examines critical eras and the impact of time and the pressure of historical forces on the region's females. |
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... eighteenth century did the demand for black slave labor replace the earlier reliance on indentured white servants . The circum- stances under which blacks first labored in the seventeenth century remain somewhat nebulous . The historian ...
... eighteenth century did the demand for black slave labor replace the earlier reliance on indentured white servants . The circum- stances under which blacks first labored in the seventeenth century remain somewhat nebulous . The historian ...
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... eighteenth - century English - speaking North America . Men and women who lived during those chaotic but ... eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries possessed the strange and wonderful capacity not only to lift female converts to new ...
... eighteenth - century English - speaking North America . Men and women who lived during those chaotic but ... eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries possessed the strange and wonderful capacity not only to lift female converts to new ...
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... eighteenth - century evangelical- ism - also inspired utopian notions of liberty and true equality among all ranks ... eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries likewise reaffirmed the inferior status of females . For the most part ...
... eighteenth - century evangelical- ism - also inspired utopian notions of liberty and true equality among all ranks ... eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries likewise reaffirmed the inferior status of females . For the most part ...
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