Domestic jobs, slaves, and servants (jan 1, 1770 – nov 13, 1839)
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Cooking, spinning yarn, sewing, running a house, farm or plantation. Unmarried women could be teachers, some women had jobs as blacksmiths, printers, miidwives. Some European women came as indentured servants from Europe. Enslaved women usually worked in fields but some did sckilled labor or housework.
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Careers for women in U.S. history
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