Tobacco brides
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tobacco-brides-180-13802619
title:
Tobacco brides
text:
A tobacco bride is a descriptive name for a young woman that emigrated to Colonial Virginia to marry a settler. Following the settlement of the Jamestown, Virginia colony in the early 1600s there was a vast gender inequality, as most of those who left for Jamestown were men who were tasked with building and establishing the settlement itself. There were about 100 women with families already in colonial Virginia, but there was still a significant gender divide. Beginning in 1619, young single wom
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encyclopedia
description:
Women betrothed to settlers of Jamestown, Virginia
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobacco_brides
date created:
2016-05-20T14:11:49Z
date modified:
2024-09-05T12:47:41Z
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