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| | H-Net Review: Julie Richter on Women's Life and Work in the Southern Colonies |
 | | This book is a classic because Spruill conducted meticulous research, studied southern women in the context of their society, and examined topics that continue to inform the questions that historians of women, and of the South, ask at the end of the twentieth century. |
 | | She noted that the social institutions of the southern colonies were based on those in England. |
 | | Spruill's detailed examination of women who lived and worked in the southern colonies serves as a useful introduction to many of the topics that social historians study today: women's lives, vernacular architecture, material culture, work, family structure and relationships, regionality, religion, and differences between urban and rural life. |
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