Title: Colonial Women ***
Headings: Colonial Women
Colonial Women
Colonial Women

Content: the superior is masculine and eternal; the feminine inferior and mortal." Colonial Women - Puritan Adulterers
In the Puritan society the crime of adultery was abhorred, two known adulterers were executed in Massachusetts Bay Colony and others were publically whipped. Adulterers might have been forced to wear a scarlet "A" if they were lucky. At least two known adulterers were executed in Massachusetts Bay Colony and punishment by public whippings were commonplace and generally took place on the 'Punishing Scaffold'. The Puritans believed that the scaffold was inhabited by the devil "where evil doers were set up for public shame". The Scarlet Letter is a famous fictional book written by Nathaniel Hawthorne in 1850. The book tells the story of the adulteress Hester Prynne who is forced to wear a scarlet A to mark her shame. Colonial Women - Wealthy European Colonial Women
The wealthy Colonial Women from Europe of the later colonial years enjoyed a life that was similar to that they would have experienced in Europe. Wealth enabled them to live in great town houses and colonial mansions.