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I'm surprised there was such concern about class in New Spain, since it doesn't seem to have existed in quite the same way in the English colonies. '''I'd also love to read a more precise definition of seduction. The most interesting part of this law is that NOT marrying a woman is a serious offense - if someone has seduced someone and then doesn't marry her, then that apparently does her serious injury, though not him.''' (I guess he's the one not embarrassed by being turned down, just as her lineage or reputation won't be hurt by marrying someone above her?) I wonder, did lower-class women ever seduce Dukes and Counts? It certainly doesn't seem to have happened enough to be mentioned here, but I guess those native girls were just all over the nobility. - Katie C. | I'm surprised there was such concern about class in New Spain, since it doesn't seem to have existed in quite the same way in the English colonies. '''I'd also love to read a more precise definition of seduction. The most interesting part of this law is that NOT marrying a woman is a serious offense - if someone has seduced someone and then doesn't marry her, then that apparently does her serious injury, though not him.''' (I guess he's the one not embarrassed by being turned down, just as her lineage or reputation won't be hurt by marrying someone above her?) I wonder, did lower-class women ever seduce Dukes and Counts? It certainly doesn't seem to have happened enough to be mentioned here, but I guess those native girls were just all over the nobility. - Katie C. | ||
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| + | I found Eliza Pinckney's ''To Improve in Every Virtue''to quite refreshing compared to that of Susanna Wesley's ''Evangelical Child-Rearing.'' I felt like I could relate more to Eliza. She seemed so much more calm and matter of fact. She did not seem so uptight, like Susanna did. I have to wonder if part of that was because of the different places that they where from. Susanna was from New England, a place settled and controlled, in a way, by religion. Where as Eliza lived in the south, where religion came second to making money. -- Jennifer S. | ||
== Laws on Slave Descent in VA and MD, 1662, 1664, 1691, 1692 == | == Laws on Slave Descent in VA and MD, 1662, 1664, 1691, 1692 == | ||
