Women Colonial America

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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: 05-08-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 62 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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    • A History from Colonial Times to Today
    • By: Pamela Nadell
    • Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
    • Length: 11 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 04-02-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • A groundbreaking history of how Jewish women maintained their identity and influenced social activism as they wrote themselves into American history....

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    • The Untold Story of the Accused and Their Accusers in the Salem Witch Trials
    • By: Marilynne K. Roach
    • Narrated by: Kate Reading
    • Length: 17 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 03-17-14
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 189 ratings
    • Six Women of Salem is the first work to use the lives of a select number of representative women as a microcosm to illuminate the larger crisis of the Salem witch trials....

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    • Image and Reality in the Lives of Women in Northern New England, 1650-1750
    • By: Laurel Thatcher Thatcher Ulrich
    • Narrated by: Susan Ericksen
    • Length: 11 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 02-04-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 36 ratings
    • This enthralling work of scholarship strips away abstractions to reveal the hidden - and not always stoic - face of the "goodwives" of colonial America. In this book, we encounter the awesome burdens - and the considerable power - of a New England housewife's domestic life....

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    • By: Sam Polakoff
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 6 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 04-02-25
    • Language: English
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    • The Diary of Essie Lassiter was an authentic read, with a strong female narrator blazing a fiery path in a harsh new world. Her voice was as ...

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    • Lafayette's untold American Revolutionary love story
    • By: Anne Supsic
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 04-13-25
    • Language: English
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    • The legendary Marquis de Lafayette, A forgotten Moravian woman who became his nurse, And a bookmark with a secret... 1777. After being wounded at ...

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    • The Life of Mary Washington
    • By: Martha Saxton
    • Narrated by: Laural Merlington
    • Length: 12 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 10-22-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • 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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    • The Women Who Shaped Our Nation
    • By: Cokie Roberts
    • Narrated by: Cokie Roberts
    • Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 04-08-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 186 ratings
    • 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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    • Hannah Duston's Captivity and Revenge in Colonial America
    • By: Jay Atkinson
    • Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
    • Length: 9 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 05-28-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 53 ratings
    • In 1697, a band of Abenaki warriors in service to the French raided the English frontier village of Haverhill, Massachusetts. Striking swiftly, the Abenaki killed 27 men, women, and children, and took 13 captives, including 39-year-old Hannah Duston and her week-old daughter....

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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: 07-09-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 156 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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    • The Other Side of History
    • By: Dr. Linwood "Little Bear" Custalow
    • Narrated by: Rainy Fields
    • Length: 3 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 04-18-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • 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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    • Early American Studies
    • By: Marisa J. Fuentes
    • Narrated by: Carrie Burgess
    • Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 11-15-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 24 ratings
    • 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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    • By: A.L. Jambor
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 13 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 04-17-25
    • Language: English
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    • A Sweeping Saga of the Truelock Family Jedediah Truelock surveyed the land he'd won in a card game. He could never imagine the sprawling mansion ...

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    • A History
    • By: Winifred Gallagher
    • Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
    • Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 06-28-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 97 ratings
    • Winifred Gallagher presents the history of the Post Office as America's own story, told from a fresh perspective over more than two centuries....

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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: 01-30-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • A pathbreaking look at Native women of the early South who defined power and defied authority....

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    • Anna Stone's Daring Ride to Valley Forge
    • By: Tracy Lawson
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 10 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 05-28-24
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • "...vivid and authentic detail....Lawson makes all the trials of the American Revolution come alive.” — Jodi Daynard, author of The Midwife's ...

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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: 03-15-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • 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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    • A Novel
    • By: Kathleen Kent
    • Narrated by: Ellen Archer
    • Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 11-05-10
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 64 ratings
    • In the harsh wilderness of colonial Massachusetts, Martha Allen works as a servant in her cousin's household, taking charge and locking wills with everyone....

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    • A Novel
    • By: Sally Cabot Gunning
    • Narrated by: Piper Goodeve
    • Series: Satucket, Book 3
    • Length: 9 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 10-06-20
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • The Rebellion of Jane Clarke is the compelling story of a young woman caught between tradition and independence, family and conscience, loyalty and love, on the eve of the Revolutionary War....

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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: 03-19-15
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 18 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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