How did race and class affect access to education?

How did race and class affect access to education? Research is listed for the American Revolution.

Southern women's history from 1800-1860 is examined.

What was the relationship between African-American women and white women like in the South? Do you think slavery helped Southern white women conform to ideals of domesticity and True Womanhood? If so, how?

Gender roles from 1800-1860 are briefly explored.

How did women justify their involvement in reform movements in light of their belief in the ideology of true womanhood? Do you think these two ideas fit together logically? Do you think most women really believed they should be submissive, virtuous, and pure?

Women and labor from 1800-1860 is emphasized.

The transition from a household to capitalist economy had important effects on women. In the colonial and early American periods, women had helped to provide for the family through household production such as keeping chickens, making butter, etc. After the advent of industrialization, work was increasingly separated from the home. How did working in factories change family relationships? What about class differences? Do you think women are defined by their labor? Why or why not?

Pedestal, Loom, and Auction Block 1800-1860 is the period of focus for this posting.

• What do you think her day to day life (in that particular era) was like for women?