HUMAN 1C Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Martha Ballard, Squaw, Childbirth
15 May 2017
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Women are doing more kinds of labor. Powhatan says we need corn , english keep coming back to ask for corn, Men are laborers, white women labors to her husband, but if you are aa, women and men are considered laborers. If you marry an aa women, you have to pay the taxes for her as a laborer (does not apply to white women) Eats a variety of meats rich. His loss is what people(aa slaves) produce gives a sense of what makes up an elite leader. Textiles: weeded, pulled, combed, spun, reeled, boiled, spooled, warper, quilled, wove, bucked, bleached. Racial divisions in labor, childbirth only involves women. An act for mulatto children being bond or free. Laws of virginia -- part of partus sequitor ventrem. If you"re a women, you are legally invisible. But if you are aa, you are still a laborer. This^ is how virginia developed racecraft through the instantiation of tax laws.
