Colonial Women

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    • Witchcraft in Colonial New England
    • By: Carol F. Karlsen
    • Narrated by: Jo Anna Perrin
    • Length: 9 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 08-05-2018
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Author Carol F. Karlsen reveals the social construction of witchcraft in 17th-century New England and illuminates the larger contours of gender relations in that society and attempts to answer the question why some women were vulnerable to accusations of witchcraft and possession....

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    • The Full Story of the Salem Witch Trials
    • By: Frances Hill
    • Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon
    • Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 09-07-2014
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • During the bleak winter of 1692 in the rigid Puritan community of Salem Village, Massachusetts, a group of young girls began experiencing violent fits, allegedly tormented by Satan....

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    • A Story of Africa and Atonement
    • By: John Heminway
    • Narrated by: John Heminway
    • Length: 10 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 13-02-2018
    • Language: English
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    • In Full Flight explores the question of whether it is possible to rewrite one’s past by doing good in the present and takes listeners on an extraordinary journey into a dramatic life punctuated by both courage and weakness and driven by a powerful need to atone....

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    • Crime, Transportation, and the Servitude of Female Convicts, 1718-1783
    • By: Edith M. Ziegler
    • Narrated by: Sally Martin
    • Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 19-03-2015
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Great Britain's forced transportation of convicts to colonial Australia is well known. Less widely known is Britain's earlier program of sending convicts - including women - to North America....

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    • Early American Studies
    • By: Marisa J. Fuentes
    • Narrated by: Carrie Burgess
    • Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 15-11-2018
    • Language: English
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    • In the 18th century, Bridgetown, Barbados, was heavily populated by both enslaved and free women. Marisa J. Fuentes creates a portrait of urban Caribbean slavery in this colonial town from the perspective of these women whose stories appear only briefly in historical records....

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    • Sinners and Witches in Puritan New England
    • By: Elizabeth Reis
    • Narrated by: Susan Marlowe
    • Length: 7 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 02-10-2018
    • Language: English
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    • Elizabeth Reis explores the intersection of Puritan theology, Puritan evaluations of womanhood, and the Salem witchcraft episodes. She finds in those intersections the basis for understanding why women were accused of witchcraft more often than men....

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    • By: Jennifer Potter
    • Narrated by: Charlotte Strevens
    • Length: 10 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 06-02-2019
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • In 1621, 57 women undertook a three-month journey to Jamestown after responding to an advert placed by the Virginia Company, looking for wives for its tobacco planters in the New Colony....

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    • The Heroic Story of an Outlander and Colonial Wartime Shero Branded as an Outlaw (Women in War, Book 1)
    • By: Martin Mongiello
    • Narrated by: Susan C. Hunter
    • Length: 2 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 11-11-2019
    • Language: English
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    • The real story of the American "Shero" Mary Patton and her famed gunpowder production can finally be heard in her voice via this creative nonfiction work. Scientific, forestry, and geologic research reveal the hidden truth untold for hundreds of years....

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    • The Hansen Family Saga, Book 1
    • By: Ellin Carsta, Gerald Chapple - translator
    • Narrated by: Siiri Scott
    • Series: The Hansen Family Saga, Book 1
    • Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 16-07-2019
    • Language: English
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    • Hamburg 1888: After thirty prosperous years, coffee importer Peter Hansen & Sons faces hard times - and certain bankruptcy - unless three brothers can make savvy moves to save the faltering business after their father’s untimely death....

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    • A Woman "Not Apt to Be Intimidated"
    • By: John L. Smith Jr.
    • Narrated by: Janet Metzger
    • Length: 15 hrs
    • Release date: 08-10-2024
    • Language: English
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    • Abigail Adams, wife of John Adams, was an eyewitness to America's founding, and helped guide the new nation through her observations and advice to her famously prickly husband, who cherished her.

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    • By: Alice Morse Earle
    • Narrated by: Joseph Tabler
    • Length: 6 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 30-01-2024
    • Language: English
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    • Alice Morse Earle’s writings, beginning in 1890, focused on small sociological details rather than grand details, and thus are invaluable for modern social historians....

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    • Colonial America History Book 5th Grade | Children's American History
    • By: Baby Professor
    • Narrated by: Carmyn Block
    • Length: 11 mins
    • Release date: 28-01-2022
    • Language: English
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    • The societal structure in Colonial America differs from modern America in so many ways. This book for fifth graders will touch on the issue of jobs, women, and slaves in Colonial America. Allow your child to listen to the contents of this book at his/her own pace to maximize learning....

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    • The Women Who Shaped Our Nation
    • By: Cokie Roberts
    • Narrated by: Cokie Roberts
    • Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 08-04-2008
    • Language: English
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    • Roberts presents a colorful blend of biographical portraits and behind-the-scenes vignettes chronicling women's public roles and private responsibilities....

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    • The Other Side of History
    • By: Dr. Linwood "Little Bear" Custalow
    • Narrated by: Rainy Fields
    • Length: 3 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 18-04-2023
    • Language: English
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    • The True Story of Pocahontas is the first public publication of the Powhatan perspective that has been maintained and passed down from generation to generation within the Mattaponi Tribe, and the first written history of Pocahontas by her own people....

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    • The Witch Trials of Mary Bliss Parsons
    • By: Kathy-Ann Becker
    • Narrated by: Kathy-Ann Becker
    • Length: 10 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 14-07-2022
    • Language: English
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    • Silencing the Women: The Witch Trials of Mary Bliss Parsons is the true story of what happened to an early New England Puritan woman settler who was too beautiful, rich, and outspoken for her times. Enmeshed in a web of jealousy and gossip, she struggled to overcome victimization....

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    • Deborah Read Franklin and the Other Women Behind the Founding Father
    • By: Nancy Rubin Stuart
    • Narrated by: Ann M. Richardson
    • Length: 7 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 15-03-2022
    • Language: English
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    • Everyone knows Benjamin Franklin—the thrifty inventor-statesman of the Revolutionary era—but not about his love life. Poor Richard’s Women reveals the neglected voices of the women Ben loved and lost during his lifelong struggle between passion and prudence....

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    • The Life of Mary Washington
    • By: Martha Saxton
    • Narrated by: Laural Merlington
    • Length: 12 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 22-10-2019
    • Language: English
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    • The Widow Washington is the first life of Mary Ball Washington, George Washington's mother, based on archival sources. Her son's biographers have, for the most part, painted her as self-centered and crude, a trial to her oldest child. But the records tell a very different story....

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    • By: Nathaniel Hawthorne
    • Narrated by: Carolina Zaccarini
    • Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 07-06-2019
    • Language: Italian
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    • Pubblicato nel 1850, "La lettera scarlatta" è uno dei più importanti romanzi nordamericani dell'Ottocento. Nelle intenzioni dell'autore...

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    • Native Women and the Making of the Early South
    • By: Alejandra Dubcovsky
    • Narrated by: Raquel Beattie
    • Length: 8 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 30-01-2024
    • Language: English
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    • A pathbreaking look at Native women of the early South who defined power and defied authority....

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