The first thing that caught my attention in this chapter was in the very first paragraph. The part about a Cherokee woman being a "war woman" and that as a woman she was able to have some power and she tried to convince the Cherokee people to realize they were out matched and to make peice stood out to me. It seems like women are gaining a little in social standings. Later in the chapter we see this to be true! It is an exciting part to read about because I am a girl and I like being to be educated in things and this chapter looks into intellectual equality.
It surprised me that with the invention of improved agricultural technology that made crop production more efficient, like the cotton gin, that the black slaves were not given more freedom. Instead of more freedom, they found themselves more restricted. I really thought that it was going to be the other way around.
No comments:
Post a Comment