assignment 7 online
INSTRUCTIONS:
Read the primary documents on p. 270-271, in the textbook, Give Me Liberty! – From Recollections of Harriet L. Noble (1824) and From “Factory Life as It Is, by an Operative” (1845)
Answer the following questions:
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- In what ways did the experience of moving west alter traditional expectations of white women’s roles?
- Why does the female factory worker compare her conditions with those of slaves?
- In your view, is this a just comparison? Why or why not?
- What do these documents suggest about how different kinds of white women were affected by the market revolution of the early nineteenth century?