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While reading Roger Williams' Narragansett Women, I noticed that his description of the labor that the females did was, in his mind, much more challenging than described by John Heckewelder and Mary Jemison. I also noticed a parallel between Mary Rowlandson and Williams opinion that as Williams put it, "Indian women has escaped Gods curse on Eve." Of course Rowlandson described these feeling in a negative light but the idea was certainly the same. - Caryn Levine | While reading Roger Williams' Narragansett Women, I noticed that his description of the labor that the females did was, in his mind, much more challenging than described by John Heckewelder and Mary Jemison. I also noticed a parallel between Mary Rowlandson and Williams opinion that as Williams put it, "Indian women has escaped Gods curse on Eve." Of course Rowlandson described these feeling in a negative light but the idea was certainly the same. - Caryn Levine | ||
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| + | I feel like Roger Williams gave the Indians a lot of respect in his writing, as opposed to others who saw Indians as savages, etc. He recognized that, although the Indians had a different way of life, they worked hard for their living. I found it interesting how an issue such as "polygamy" was not even made to be a big issue by Williams, while another European may have seen it as absolutely disgusting. He noticed the differences in society between the Europeans and Indians, but found ways to justify why they did what they did and I think that was honorable of him, to respect the cultural differences. ---Alex Mankarios | ||
== John Heckewelder’s 1819, Women’s Lives among the Delaware == | == John Heckewelder’s 1819, Women’s Lives among the Delaware == | ||
