Article: Colonial heroines: meet four women who were ahead of their time. (American History).

Hauling buckets of water. Cooking over an open fire. Living in tiny cabins in the wilderness. Many women in colonial America struggled just to survive and raise their families. They faced the same dangers and challenges that men did--but in long skirts, carrying babies in their arms, and with far fewer rights than their husbands and brothers. Yet even in those difficult early days, some exceptional women stood out.

"Not Fit for Our Society" Anne Hutchinson (1591-1643) stood tall in the courtroom in 1637. She was 47, pregnant, and exhausted. But she bravely faced her accusers--49 well-educated and powerful leaders of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.

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