HUMAN 1C Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Childbirth, Whist, Squaw
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Gender, labor and early colonization: gender frontiers and creating colonies (c. 1600s) Huron seasonal labor cycles: females did more of agriculture; women doing more kinds of labor, manufacturing done during winter. Engaging in leisure activities (hunting was for the noble class for the british) John smith and powhatan (c. 1609: powhatan people who can"t do anything, dependent on others, english we have scared him to give us tribute. Making sexual division: making african american women perpetual laborers even when they are free disincentive of marrying african american women. William byrd, virginia plantation, 1709: hogshead barrel, whist: card game, eats a lot of meat, etc, his loss is what is produced by others. Enslaved labor: george washington"s plantation: winter activities: women and men"s labor not much difference. Midwifery: martha ballard: (me, late 1700s) 768/814 survive: catherine blaikley (va, 1700s): 3000, martha getting paid to do this.
