Walker, Niki, 1972-

Colonial women / Niki Walker ; illustrations by Barbara Bedell. - New York : Crabtree Pub., 2003. - 32 p. : col. ill., col. map ; 29 cm. - The colonial people series .

Includes index.

A new way of life -- Colonial women -- Other women, other lives -- A tough new life -- Town and city women -- On a plantation -- Slave women -- Educating girls -- Courtship -- Wedding bells -- Family life -- Jobs for women -- Games and pastimes -- Women's clothing -- Notable colonial women.

Introduces the different skills and often difficult lives of women on the farm, in business, and on the plantation as the owner's wife or as a slave in colonial America.

ISBN: 0778707490 (RLB : alk. paper) 0778707954 (PB : alk. paper)

LCCN: 2002012054

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Women--History.--United States
Women colonists--Social conditions.--United States
Women colonists--Social life and customs.--United States
Women--History--17th century.
Women--History--18th century.
Colonists.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
United States--Social conditions--To 1865.
United States--Social life and customs--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
United States--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.

LC Class. No.: HQ1416 / .W35 2003

Dewey Class. No.: 305.42/0973