Women were on the Mayflower when it landed in North America. They were sent to Jamestown as Tobacco Wives. Even the first European born in the English colonies was a woman: Virginia Dare... named after the Virgin Queen. Women were also leaders in Indigenous communities, like Pocahontas and Weetamoo. Some indigenous women resisted the encroaching Europeans, others allied or married with them. The first enslaved Africans who were brought to the continent included a woman named Angela. Wherever cultural interactions occurred in the Americas so were women.

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Host: Rachel Perez

Editor: Tyler Cardwell

Producer: Kelsie Brook Eckert

Contributing Authors: Kelsie Brook Eckert, Dr. Barbara Tischler, Dr. Alicia Gutierrez-Romine, Dr. DeAnna Beachley, Jacqui Nelson, Mary Bezbatchenko, Dr. Victoria Plutshack, and Nye Adamkowski.

Consultants and Reviewers: Dr. Tanya Roth, Dr. Jessica Frazier, Dr. Linda Upham-Bornstein, Dr. Margaret Huettl, Hannah Dutton, Michelle Stonis, Annabelle L. Blevins Pifer, Matthew Cerjak, Maria Concepcion Marquez Sandoval, and Lauren Connolly.

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