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"I Have Thought Proper to Inform the World": Reading Unconventional Testaments of 18th-Century New England Women
<p>Early New England women chose to pass down what they owned and valued: clothing, cupboards, pewter dishes, commonplace books, etc. But some women passed down something more: a written testament, which sought to shape public opinion in colonial New England. A "testament" usefully suggests a text …
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"""What I Did Is Who I Am"": African American Women and Resistance to Slavery in Colonial and Revolutionary New England"
"From her arrival in New England beginning in the 1630's, the enslaved African woman possessed a ""self-conscious"" identity that was both individual and collective. My dissertation uncovers acts of resistance and strategies of survival that enslaved New England women used to fashion an identity …