Women's Rights in Colonial America

Women's Rights in Colonial America <Tab/>In the Colonies European American women led a relatively free life, while all except a very few African American women were true slaves, and as such, lived in a vastly different manner. In Europe, tradition held that women be esteemed, but being inferior, they must be guided by men. English Common Law allowed a single woman upon reaching legal maturity, a few rights. She could …

…of colonial women were afforded some type of education. In Europe, an education for women was considered a waste since a woman would always have man to make her decisions for her. All in all, the additional rights granted to both single and married women in colonial America, whether by written law or common practice, did indeed, make for "a Paradise on Earth," when compared to the lives of their English and western European counterparts.