... "soundest and truest values" rather than those in the best Greek and Latin. This harsh condemnation of the existing Renaissance educational system was repeated in the first half of the seventeenth century. An English schoolmaster named John Brisley and a Bohemian educational reformer named John Amos Comenius both despaired that the students at the lower levels of education could only write Latin and ... "learning is a nourishment for the maliciousness of their nature." Unfortunately, this narrow view of women's education prevailed until the end of the Renaissance period. For example, late...

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Best known as a leader of a 1689 New York rebellion that came to bear his name, Jacob Leisler was one of late seventeenth-century New York's most prominent merchants, land developers, and foremost exponent of Reformed religious fundamentalism and Orangist political ideology. He was intimately bound to the social, economic, and political development of ... the New York government a forerunner of the American Revolution. Best known as a leader of a 1689 New York rebellion that came to bear his name, Jacob Leisler was one of late seventeenth-century New York's most prominent merchants, land dev...

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... settled and originally colonized by mainly English settlers, the New England colonies and the Chesapeake region were distinctly different by the beginning of the eighteenth century. A series of events leading up to the beginning of the seventeenth century can account for the vast differences between these two colonial regions. The Chesapeake region, which was situated in the modern day Virginia area, had drastically ... ...

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Every colony in seventeenth and eighteenth century Latin America possessed its own unique social structure; these dynamic hierarchies varied from area to area but were markedly consistent across the continents. The societies of Brazil and Cuba particularly ... did, however, own a majority of Cuban land and fill economic positions such as those of cattle raisers, tobacco and sugar planters, teachers, lawyers, priests, and journalists. By the late eighteenth century these colonists demanded the dissolution of their political restrictions, and some would eventually be successful in rebelling ag...

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... explorers to make the case that white people used African women's bodies as an apparatus to "convey an emergent notion of racialized difference." For instance, in the mid-seventeenth century Englishman Richard Ligon wrote of the black women he encountered on his travels as having monstrous bodies, with breasts that "[hung] down below their navels, so that when they ... ...

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