Women's Rights in Colonial America In the Colonies European American women led a relatively free life, while all except a very few African American women were true slaves, and as such, lived in a vastly different manner. In Europe, tradition held that women be esteemed, but being inferior, they must be guided by men. English Common Law allowed a single woman upon reaching legal maturity, a few ... brought to her marriage. Recorded court decisions allowed married women to enter contracts, control personal earnings and even own separate property. Some even gained grants of land, owned plantation...

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... recognized for the purpose of inheritance. Males inherited their clan names based on their accomplishments, as well as other things when one decease. Land was not owned in many parts of Africa during the pre-colonial period. The male chief of the patrilineage held and distributed the land. They distributed the land as necessary to male members. The woman's access to land ... African and North American continents. Europeans ventured to Africa where they began a trans-Atlantic slave trade. Many Africans were taken as free people and then forced into slavery in South America, the Caribbean...

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... and Du Bois wanted to eventually get to the same destination, that of complete equality for blacks and all other minorities living in America; Du Bois just wanted to take a shortcut and get there faster. Washington realized that blacks would not get total equality overnight ... Southern whites were furious about the social implications of the outcome of the Civil War, the economic ramifications of the war would hit their plantations even harder.14 Without slavery, they would be without a steady workforce and would most assuredly lose large sums of money "earned- through their ... skille...

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... passage" and legions of cruelties and atrocities committed against them before they even faced the hardships of America. Once in the new world and on the plantations Africans had to deal with the continual pressures of enslavement and dominance from another culture. Slave masters intervened continually in the lives of their slaves, from directing their labor to approving or disapproving marriages. Some masters made ... South. Still, despite their tenuous status, families served as the slaves" most basic refuge, the center of private lives that owners could never fully control. Religion ...

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