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Women, Property, and the Law in the Anglo-American World, 1630–1700

Women, Property, and the Law in the Anglo-American World, 1630–1700 <p>Colonial women did not enjoy more advantages and legal freedoms than their counterparts in England. The approximately 60,000 women who emigrated from England to the colonies between 1630 and 1700 left behind the benefits of a complex, but comprehensive system of English law that protected and served their needs with a level of sophistication that the American courts lacked. While Anglo-American culture remained fundamentally patriarchal throughout the early modern period, in the seventeenth century the English legal system provided women with more varied and robust methods of circumventing the law of coverture than did the colonial legal system.</p> http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Early American Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal University of Pennsylvania Press

Women, Property, and the Law in the Anglo-American World, 1630–1700

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University of Pennsylvania Press
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Copyright © 2008 The McNeil Center for Early American Studies.
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<p>Colonial women did not enjoy more advantages and legal freedoms than their counterparts in England. The approximately 60,000 women who emigrated from England to the colonies between 1630 and 1700 left behind the benefits of a complex, but comprehensive system of English law that protected and served their needs with a level of sophistication that the American courts lacked. While Anglo-American culture remained fundamentally patriarchal throughout the early modern period, in the seventeenth century the English legal system provided women with more varied and robust methods of circumventing the law of coverture than did the colonial legal system.</p>

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Early American Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal – University of Pennsylvania Press

Published: Jul 25, 2016

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