Many people think they know a fair amount about slavery and how it affected women in the North and South, but do they?

 Pretend a local politician just got it very wrong and you are a historian wanting to set the record straight on how slavery affected women in America. Include: •enslaved women’s varied experiences •northern white women •southern white women •How class and religion also might have affected the experiences Use America’s Women Chapters 7 and 8, and at least two primary sources from Chapter 2 of Women and Slavery in America. Cite specific examples. —– When you cite the Women in Slavery Chapter: 1 Gail Collins, America’s Women: 400 Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates and Heroines (New York: Harper Perennial, 2003), 51. 2 Collins, America’s Women, 52. 3 Document 26: Excerpt, [Rebecca Warrent Brown?], Memoir of Mrs. Chloe Spear, a Native of Africa, Who was Enslaved in Childhood, and Died in Boston, January 3, 1815… Aged 65 Years. By a Lady of Boston (Boston: James Loring, 1832), 9-13 in Women and Slavery in America, ed. Catherine Lewis and J. Richard Lewis (University of Arkansas Press, 2011), 99.