HIS 130 Study Guide - Comprehensive Midterm Guide: Coverture, Enclosure, Christian Culture

• School: University of Hartford
• Department: History - A&S
• Course: HIS 130
• Professor: Professor Bartram

Document Summary

Race, gender, labor, and slavery in the chesapeake. Gender was the most powerful framework for understanding social order, in the early colonial period. A laboring black woman became the linchpin (meaning good) around which intersecting frameworks of race and gender helped virginia"s elite make order out of a disordered society, but the african -afro virginian slaves dominated this. Since the emphasis the english put on gender order, this has led to the unconscious creation of an intersecting racial order in a colonial society. In england, and partially europe, mostly in the 16th century, the natural gender order of the world shaped views of societal order. Ideas of gender shaped politics, science, economics, and law, and were shaped by them in return. As english colonists arrived in virginia, they transplanted those ideas as well; the gender framework we are talking about is called patriarchy.