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In ''Rape and Sexual Power in Early America'', Sharon Block provides a comprehensive analysis of rape accusations and prosecutions from approximately 1700-1820. Block examined more than 900 documented incidents of "sexual coercion" to illustrate the dynamics of sexual power in play in British North America. According to Block, definitions of rape or assault were more frequently based on the identities of the parties involved. Through her analysis of these documents, Block argues that the way official persecuted these infractions worked to preserve the social, racial, gender, and political hierarchies of early North America.

6. Clare A. Lyons, ''[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0807856754/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0807856754&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=c9a91d75d983f3d56ce7ae29c4a74149 Sex Among the Rabble: An Intimate History of Gender and Power in the Age of Revolution, Philadelphia, 1730-1830]'', (University of North Carolina Press, 2006).

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.

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).