<P> There were ethnic differences in the treatment of women . Among Puritan settlers in New England, wives almost never worked in the fields with their husbands . In German communities in Pennsylvania, however, many women worked in fields and stables . German and Dutch immigrants granted women more control over property, which was not permitted in the local English law . Unlike English colonial wives, German and Dutch wives owned their own clothes and other items and were also given the ability to write wills disposing of the property brought into the marriage . </P> <P> By the mid-18th century, the values of the American Enlightenment became established and weakened the view that husbands were natural "rulers" over their wives . There was a new sense of shared marriage . Legally, husbands took control of wives' property when marrying . Divorce was almost impossible until the late eighteenth century . </P> <P> Slaves imported to American colonies </P> <Ul> <Li> 1620 - 1700...21,000 </Li> <Li> 1701 - 1760...189,000 </Li> <Li> 1761 - 1770...63,000 </Li> <Li> 1771 - 1790...56,000 </Li> <Li> 1791 - 1800...79,000 </Li> <Li> 1801 - 1810...124,000 </Li> <Li> 1810 - 1865...51,000 </Li> <Li> Total...597,000 </Li> </Ul>

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