HIS326Y5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: French West Indies, Usera, Marguerite Bourgeoys
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Sauf les perils et fortunes de la mer:" merchant women in new france and the french transatlantic trade, 1713-1746 by kathryn a. Kathryn young"s article is a recovery of quebec"s early female merchants. Les femmes favorisees was an article by jan noel that attributed settler women"s prominence directly to the flexibility of ancien regime practice. Included discussion on sex roles, the logic of colonial demography and the pressure of economic necessity. Based on research from archives in paris, la rochelle, quebec city and. Reveal women"s trade with metropolitan merchants and with plantations in the west indies. Investigate women who bought and sold property in upper and lower town. Quebec and some who were engaged in the fur trade in hudson bay. The focus in all of these studies is on men in the transatlantic trade, although references are made to the merchant family and to women by association.
