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Subject:	The Status of Women in Early Virginia - Endless Thread # 2
From:	Jon Kukla <[log in to unmask]>
Reply To:	Discussion of research and writing about Virginia history <[log in to unmask]>
Date:	Thu, 17 May 2012 20:32:41 +0000
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Kiracofe is right.
Nee = "born" and is placed after the name of a married woman to introduce  
her _maiden_ name, not the surname of her first husband. Ie Wayles not  
Skelton.

He and Hardwick and others are also right that women were recognized as  
having souls, and that they were persons not property. Indeed back in 1974  
Edmund Morgan popularized the recognition that 17th century Virginia women  
may have enjoyed greater autonomy than their English sisters.

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