First Generations: Women in Colonial America

First Generations: Women in Colonial America by Berkin, Carol. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780809045617.

Indian, European, and African women of seventeenth and eighteenth-century America were defenders of their native land, pioneers on the frontier, willing immigrants, and courageous slaves. They were also - as traditional scholarship tends to omit - as important as men in shaping American culture and history. This remarkable work is a gripping portrait that gives early-American women their proper place in history.