1. Women in Early America
States Rights Living in the North or the South gave exceptionally different recompenses and exposure to the political atmosphere for the women in the early republic. ... Marylyn Salmons study of the legal status of women in the early republic reveals that the literacy skills in the south amongst women were much lower than their northern counterparts. ... The laws associated to coverture and the customs of the nation bound white women of the early republic. The legal rights of women were almost non-existent, black women had little to no custody rights whether to themselves or the lives of the...
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