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. ... 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. ...

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Starting in the 14th century, the Renaissance period was a catalyst for a change in education. ... This harsh condemnation of the existing Renaissance educational system was repeated in the first half of the seventeenth century. ... For example, later in the sixteenth century, Anne Higginson wrote a letter that reflected the view that women's education consisted of reading and writing which were necessary skills for a woman to understand the scriptures, while embroidery, dancing, and music better prepared women for a decorative role to please their husbands. ... As a letter about the ...

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Despite being 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. ...

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Although overlooked, slavery had not been unknown in the North, flourishing through much of the eighteenth and seventeenth centuries and persisting in New Jersey until 1846, but involved relatively few blacks and had slight effect on Northern life and thought. ...

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It is a somber truth that marginalized groups have often been ignored when illuminating events of the past, since white hegemony has sought to suppress the voices of and injustices committed upon the "inferior" for many centuries. ... " 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 [stooped] at their common work or weeding, they [hung] almost to the ground, that at a distance you would think they had ...

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