Chapter 3

In this chapter, the colonies are more developed, some colonies people were even treated better than their counterpart in England. I was most interested in the rights of women at the time. In the Chesapeake Bay and New England, there was an imbalance of  men and women. I thought that it would actually be better as a female to immigrate there instead of staying back in England. They would get property rights once their husband had died, marriage protection, and although they were pressure to remarry, at least their family was not cramped into a tiny living space. Witchcraft was also on the rise in Salem as women were accused of being possessed by the devil and being unfeminine. To me, it just seems like an excuse for the husbands to accuse their wives or any female of disobedience. Although public education was beginning to be made possible by the Old Deluder Act, girls were still not treated the same compared to the boys who gets extra attention in academics.