Women In Colonial America Vs England

The colonists would often have married young and had many offspring. This allowed more hands to work on the farms. This also caused a higher population than England, but it aided in decreasing the mortality rate because of the plentiful food from the crops they could produce. The colonies were more spread out, allowing for the transmission of diseases to be limited compared to England. Women as a population were more abundant in the colonies, however, even though they usually held the majority, they did not have any greater power in society from those women in England. They were not allowed to attend schools, or vote, and were expected to tend to the house and garden. Occasionally, if there were not enough men to fill the prominent occupations in the colonies, such as doctors, the women could do so. Elizabeth Lucas Pinckney was an exception to the typical role of a woman in their society. Her father left her to manage three plantations with slaves. She developed thriving Indigo crops that ended up making her family very wealthy and …show more content…
These servants would come to American on their master’s dime and work for free for 5- 7 years until they were granted their freedom. This supplied a vast array of ethnic mix to the southern and middle colonies. In the 18th century, the south changed to using slaves as their main source of manpower to operate their booming tobacco and rice plantations. With the increase in production of these crops, there was an increase in the gap between the wealthy landowners and those that did not have plantations. The crops planted in the south were in high demand in the mother country, so the landowners increasingly became more wealthy. Because of the high demand for the southern crops, the need for slaves increased, causing an outnumbering of black to white population in the south, especially South