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Date Posted: 14:00:16 10/21/01 Sun
Author: Blue
Subject: Real Facts About Women During Darla's Time

If you want to post facts, notations, or anything else about the conditions of Darla's time pre-vamping or near to that time, please join in and post away. Just so you know Darla, even though that wasn't her name at the time, died in 1607.

Found this at HerStory:
http://www.undelete.org/woa/woa10-17.html

"In 1619: As a gauge on how life was really like in the American colonies, in 1619 an English sea captain advertised in London for free passage for single women wanting to go to the Virginia colonies to find husbands. He received 120 pounds of fine Virginia tobacco from the men who purchased the women upon their arrival. In a census taken six years later, only six of the 144 women were still alive."


"Throughout the American colonies women who bore children outside of marriage could be taken into court and sentenced to public whipping, branding, or fines.

If a woman could not support her child, the court might demand that she reveal the father's name to force him to support his offspring.

If she refused, there would be further punishment. If the woman did not know who the father was, or if she refused to say, the child was often taken from her and apprenticed to a tradesperson until the age of 21... In strongly religious communities there was an attempt to treat male and female adulterers alike. Both were forced to go to church and confess.

In New England confession was the only punishment demanded from those of high rank, while those of less social distinction often were branded, whipped, or dunked in the river."

-- Excerpt from A History of Women in America, by Carol Hymowitz and Michaele Weissman, Bantam Books, 1978. [Emphasis added by WOAH. Sexual harassment, rape, and incest did exist in those days and in those places just as it does today, only the women involved had NO rights; her word was useless against most men, in fact, some jurisdictions codified the number of women's testimony that was needed to offset the testimony of one man. And if the man were powerful, few women dared testify against him because they would not be believed.

Blue

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