In the wake of two wars, these men, their families, and servants were probably fearful of Indians; they certainly did not consider them their equals. Yet that did not make them racists or proto-racists, but pragmatic businessmen.

“Figure to yourself,” says some other Eyewitness, “a lean Lady, with big arms and long legs; small head, and countenance losing itself in a cloudery of head-dress; […]

[…] between work and household production along gender lines and a system of household finances that includes intra-marriage transfers from men to women

England is under the rule of a patriarchy.