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What is a womans place in the work place in 1848

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In the early 1800s, most white women stopped working at home and started working at the factories and schools. Some remained at home and professionalized the job of homemaker.

African American women were enslaved during this period, and Native American women dealed with more and more precarious labor as they were pushed further west.

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Industrialization in the early 1800s began drawing white Northeastern women out of the home and into the factory and schoolhouse. Particularly notable were the women who worked at the Lowell Mills in Massachusetts.

While many women worked for wages, others remained at home and professionalized the job of homemaker as part of the nineteenth-century cult of domesticity.

African American women in the South remained enslaved during this period, and were afforded none of the benefits of the cult of domesticity or independent labor. Native American women coped with increasingly precarious labor as Indian Removal and Manifest Destiny continued to push them farther west.

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