How Were Notions of Class,wealth,and Status Played Out in Colonial

question 71

Essay

How were notions of class,wealth,and status played out in colonial America? Where do you see evidence of class tensions and resistance to European ideas of status? Is there evidence that distinctions of wealth and status were changing as the seventeenth century drew to a close? In what ways?

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