Women and Domestic Life in Colonial America

Rebecca TannenbaumYale University

“Secoton Village” by John White, 1585

A man and a woman eating boiled corn, by John White, 1585

Wampanoag Potter, Plimouth Plantation

Iroquois Cradleboard, 19th Century

Pocahontas “Saves” John Smith

Pocahontas in 1616

Two Versions of Wetamo

Map of New Haven in 1641

Elizabeth Freake and Her Daughter Mary, 1641

A Midwife Delivering a Baby

The Mason Children, 1670

Tobacco Plant

Advertisements Selling Indentured Servants and Slaves

Indentured Servants Awaiting Sale (Colonial Williamsburg)

An Indentured Servant in St. Mary’s City, MD

Women and Men in the Tobacco Fields

Small Planter’s House, St. Mary’s City, MD

French Portrait of an African Woman, 1800

Overseer and Women Slaves, Virginia