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Choosing Jamestown
or
Massachusetts Bay, what is your life like in the "New World", the North American British colonies? Provide a brief overview of a colonial woman's life in one of these locations during the 17th-18th century.
The Jamestown colony was the first but not so successful English settlement that took place in the 1600’s in North America. Though however, come the 17
th
century, was when the story of this settlement
took turns for the worse. Jamestown was quickly “plagued with illness, a lack of preparedness and their agitation of the Powhatan, a local tribe, the colony faced continues threat of extinction” (17). Though after Jamestown had made many ill, those who did survive, left Jamestown before coming back due to getting more supplies from a convoy. The Massachusetts Bay, another English settlement that took place in 1630 on the East coast of America that was settled by English Protestants. The Massachusetts Bay Colony population was mainly Puritan, “from the beginning, life in these New England colonies was rigidly monitored by church officials who dealt harshly with anyone who did not adhere to the doctrine and practices of the Puritan faith” (33). For me, I think I am leaning more towards Massachusetts Bay, in the “New World” I would be a married woman who would follow the Puritan beliefs simply to survive. “Puritans rebuked the Roman Catholic view that women were a necessary evil, disavowed the hierarchy of the Anglican Church and established
their own structure where women were respected but subordinate to men” (34). Without simply following the beliefs and laws that Puritans believed were right, I would be casted out and I just want to live a life as quite as possible for not just myself but for my family as well. A woman’s time during the Massachusetts Bay in the 17
th
century and 18
th
century seemed to be an impossible time, the Puritans in New England did not believe that women had a right or a say so, they were looked at as a “necessary evil” by most Puritans while Puritan ministers “deemed women a necessary good who shared salvation as man’s joint heir, but in practice they did not regard women as equals” (34). Women did not have a voice, if they tried to have a voice, they were looked down on and would stand in front of a judge who would be banished elsewhere for their blasphemies against the church.
How were Puritan women depicted in your text and online lecture? Choose three things that made an impact on you and briefly outline these elements.
In our reading, we are introduced to Puritans who came to New England to begin their colony and their church in the Massachusetts Bay. Here we then see in our reading how Puritan women are viewed as sense of evil who were respected but were still inferior to men. “Puritans rebuked the Roman Catholic view that women were a necessary evil, disavowed” (Teipe 34). This allowed us to see that though women were still respected, they were still seen as little importance to men. A second impact is the Puritan ministers who “deemed women a necessary good who shared salvation as man’s joint heir, but in practice they did not regard women as equals” (Teipe 34). This showed us that the ministers would say and think they were a type of good but while in church, practicing their religion they were not viewed as equal to men. Lastly, Puritan patriarchs didn’t believe that women didn’t have a place or right to learn because it was meant for men and since women were the lesser sex, learning would bring a sense of insanity. “Learning was not a rightful nor proper place for a woman for two reasons: (1)
because it was the sole domain assigned to men and (2) women, being the weaker sex, might bring on madness and insanity by indulging in any intellectual exercise” (Teipe 37).
In your opinion, how important to our class is the Salem Witch Trials in examining women's lives and roles at the end of the 17th century? Briefly explain.
The Salem Witch Trials have been talked about for years that I can remember, especially my junior year of high school and the major impact it had on history for years to come, at the end of the reading we see
that they believe it was ergot poisoning that cause the girls to act out the way they did but as they continued to believe it was witchcraft, we see that they mainly targeted women for accusation with witchcraft. Carol Karlsen was said to found that “in England more poor women were accused, whereas in New England most accused women were middle-aged, and eligible for an inheritance” (Teipe 42). This
shows us that Puritans were accusing women who either had nothing at all or had the availability to gain
from family and as a woman, they must stay below and under males, the dominant sex. “Townspeople and authorities perceived them as a serious threat to the established order because they challenged the supremacy of God” (Teipe 42).
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