A talk presented by the
New Amsterdam History Center
and the
New-York Historical Society’s Center for Women’s History
Tuesday, March 28, 2023, 6 – 7:15 pm EST
Featuring Deborah Hamer, Director, New Netherland Institute, and Susanah Shaw Romney, Associate Professor of History New York University
Moderated by Valerie Paley, Director, Patricia D. Klingenstein Library, Founding Director of the Center for Women’s History, The New-York Historical Society
Join us to explore the social role of women in New Netherland, Brazil, and other places in the expanding Dutch world of the seventeenth century. What pathways and options were available to women in the Dutch empire? What part did social class play in their choices and strategies? How did marriage, and local marriage regulations affect the ability of wives and unmarried females to survive and to flourish, or not, in colonial imperial societies? How influential were women in building colonial societies? And how closely, or not, did those societies resemble a Dutch paradigm?
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