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Gender in Early America Top Ten Booklist

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7. Jennifer L. Morgan, ''[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0812218736/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0812218736&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=c16ec614bc8dd11d1c83e382478cd320 Laboring Women: Reproduction and Gender in New World Slavery]'', (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004). In this book, Jennifer Morgan focuses her attention on slave women and their bodies from the 1640s to the 1750s, approximately. Specifically, Morgan is concerned with slave women's statuses as producers (i.e. laborers), and reproducers (biological). She explores several different slave systems in the Atlantic world to piece together an interesting analysis of how slave traders and slave owners viewed slave women, and how slave women negotiated their own existence as well.
[[File:Dispossed_Lives.jpg|thumbnail|right|200px|<i>https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0812248228/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0812248228&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=25c6ddbdf5a196012dedefbae558ca8f Dispossessed Lives: Enslaved Women, Violence, and the Archive</i>]]
8. Carol Berkin, ''[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1400075327/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1400075327&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=0d206ae11e640b030bbae88b1633628a Revolutionary Mothers: Women in the Struggle for America's Independence]'', (Vintage, 2006). For those craving a female counterpart to the traditional narrative of the American Revolution, this book is for you. Carol Berkin retells the now-common story of the American Revolution through the eyes of women who lived through and participated in it--from generals' wives to everyday women participating in boycotts of British Goods. Berkin allows us to get a complete picture of this significant event in American history.

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