Summary Of Elizabeth Sprigs

2. What do these documents suggest about societal expectation for white elite women’s role? About the roles of servants and slave women? Women of power during colonial times that owned servants/slaves women had some sort of sympathy. In Eliza Lucas Pinckney letter she references to teaching black women on how to read and she plans on teaching the children also. Eliza in a different letter discusses how she is going to assume control of the plantation with or without her father blessing. Eliza seems to be pulling all of the strings on the plantation referring how she is doing all the work and does not have time to do anything on her own. Eliza before was able to go for walks, eat, breakfast, and write to her friends. Eliza does not mention …show more content…
Eliza Lucas Pinckney shows that women can take control of the family’s affairs easily if they have the support and know-how. Even without her father’s blessing, she was able to take control of the family’s farm. Elizabeth Sprigs letter gives the reader an insight on how the life of servant would be. Not all of women servant had the ability to write, so she gives a pretty good picture of how they were treated in the worst condition. Elizabeth Sprigs description of her living condition can tell that reader that she came from a wealthy background, but she father disowned her thus had to become a servant in the new world. Mrs. Agatha Stubbings and Elizabeth Howland are examples of how women got more power after their husband death. The Slander cases portray women in a negative light. It seems that they were against each other and wanted to destroy any good reputation certain women of wealth had. If we assume that widow women are more powerfully, then in Michael Baisey’s wife case it makes sense that the family of this community was going after