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Read the the “Key Concepts” for Module 1; Read the Introduction to Women’s Roles in the Colonial and Early National Eras and Read Chapter 3, “The breedings shall goe with their mothers”: Gender and evolving practices of slave ownership in the English American colonies” and focus on page 87 through the end of the chapter page 106 by Jennifer L. Morgan.For this discussion, 3 posts are required, and you should post some specific information that is drawn from the assigned readings and for the book chapter, identify the author [Jennifer Morgan] credit, and add a page number for quotes and specific passages that you want to reference.In your first post of at least 300 words discuss some of the ways that slave women’s work differed from slave men’s work. In other words, what was the sexual division of labor for the slaves on plantations, and/or working in domestic household settings? How did the slaveowners think about the ‘value’ of their female slaves and the work they did, and what kind of historical evidence did Jennifer Morgan use to describe the ways that female slaves were treated and how they lived and worked on Southern plantations.
