Southern Women in the Colonies

I.  Population of the Southern Colonies

II.  Indentured Servitude

• Economic Motivation

• Women and Indentured Servitude

III.  Gentry Class Formation

• Slavery and the Gentry

• Class Formation

• Women As Symbol For the Gentry

IV.  Plantation Households

V. Women on Small Farms

VII. Women's Legal Status

VIII.  African American Women's Arrival

IX. Women in African Society

• Economic Role

• Slavery

X. Slave Women in the Colonies

XI. Slave Women and Reproduction

XII. Slavery and Motherhood

• Slave Family

XIII. Free African American Women

XIV. Conclusions