American Women In The 1800s Essay

The dominant classes of people in the 1800’s were that of the white male protestant, and most whom fit the picture were not wealthy or powerful. However, the great majority who attained independent wealth and status were. Those whom fit the following description were for sure socially disadvantaged; African slave, Native American, a female, or Catholic. And those of rich and power considered themselves Englishmen. As they would push the Native Americans of the land, enslave the Africans, and subordinate the women, these Englishmen would insist of their freedom to define themselves (Gorn, 2007 pp.67). These Englishmen were land owners, business owners, a husband to a women that bared his children, and a slave owner (African men and women) to

The Slave once enslaved were told that they were only smart enough to work labor jobs. The women were told that their place was in the home, and the men were the decision makers and authority figures.

The beginning of the nineteenth century the English textile industry started to grow at a remarkable pace, individuals were buying up cotton, spinning it and weaving it for cloth sales, and with new technology there were factories that needed specialized labor. This labor was for men to purchase time of others as inexpensively as possible, and for the large quantity of more men to sell their labor abilities, in order to make a living. This industry of the textile growth was a beginning of a production of reorganized capitalism (Gorn, 2007 pp.147).

As the freedom of labor was able to be purchased or sold, owners were able to hire or fire their laborer this became central to the system. However, the individuals who produced the raw cotton that became cloth were not with such freedoms, the slaves that worked the field especially the ones from the south were still considered property and were still owned by the property owners (Gorn, 2007 pp.