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I don't really agree with that statement. I don't think we can tell from her diary because she really didn't include her feelings. It was mostly just a listing of what tasks she does each day. She may have been happy but I don't think we can know from that. --Alex K. | I don't really agree with that statement. I don't think we can tell from her diary because she really didn't include her feelings. It was mostly just a listing of what tasks she does each day. She may have been happy but I don't think we can know from that. --Alex K. | ||
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| + | I also disagree about the ideal life, having read additional excerpts of Drinker's diary. During the Revolution her husband was accused of being a Loyalist and she faced the burdens of running a house with small children as a single parent in an occupied city (with minimal access to provisions). As for steering away from the stereotype, that would be because it was the only woman depicted by historians for so long. The lively heroines who DID THINGS and CHANGED things--like the forgotten Lydia Darragh or Sybil Luddington or Molly Pitchers (yes, I know that wasn't her real name)--have been portrayed as the exception, while the Elizabeth Drinkers and Abigail Adamses have been portrayed as the norm. Yes Dr. McClurken, I realize I got slightly ahead of myself, but substitute that list of women for Anne Hutchinson or Deliverance Hobbes even... There is nothing wrong with the domestic woman, but that is not the man that history portrays, and we need to acknowledge that there is an active female counterpart to the active "great man" of history.--A. Meyer | ||
When reading Malefactors and Complainants in Woloch, I was wondering why the men who helped the women to fornicate or misbehave don't get into trouble except for the couple who both confessed their guilt together. Weren't women supposed to be the weaker, non intellgent gender in that day and age? Shouldn't the men be getting the punishment, after all they are the smarter ones that were all powerfull.--Cheryl | When reading Malefactors and Complainants in Woloch, I was wondering why the men who helped the women to fornicate or misbehave don't get into trouble except for the couple who both confessed their guilt together. Weren't women supposed to be the weaker, non intellgent gender in that day and age? Shouldn't the men be getting the punishment, after all they are the smarter ones that were all powerfull.--Cheryl | ||
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| + | Didn't women recieve more blame in sex crimes because of the Biblical tale of Eve? Didn't that story lead colonists to believe that women were temptresses leading men astray?--A. Meyer | ||
I found the narrative of Old Elizabeth to be quite an emotional one. Though she was one of a kind, her experience as a slave child must have been shared by many. Imagine what it was like to be separated from your family, the only familiar aspect of life in a foreign land. She was willing to risk of the consequences of running away to just see her mother for a short period of time. This is only a fraction of the hardship and heartbreak felt by many other slave families.--E. Hufford | I found the narrative of Old Elizabeth to be quite an emotional one. Though she was one of a kind, her experience as a slave child must have been shared by many. Imagine what it was like to be separated from your family, the only familiar aspect of life in a foreign land. She was willing to risk of the consequences of running away to just see her mother for a short period of time. This is only a fraction of the hardship and heartbreak felt by many other slave families.--E. Hufford | ||
