Race, Class, & Gender in Early America

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The servants and maids to the woman of the house were the actual ones to carry out these jobs. The middle class white women were servants themselves, or wives of shopkeepers, and hired farmhands. Their duties seemed to bee a bit heavier, doing more of the housework themselves and sometimes even working outside of the home...
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These class shifts made way for the distinction and separation of the household and the workplace. Women were accepted in the workplace only if their need and class put them in a position to do so. Now, the most significant group of women at this time to make it into the workforce is the African American women...
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