What was the social life like of a colonist
The daily life of any colonist was mostly based around religion. Religion in the New York Colony was diverse with Quakers to Jews, and everything in between. The religious gruop called Quakers, or the Society of Friends, lived in the Middle Colonies in especially large numbers. They believed in nonviolence, equality between men and women, and religious tolerance. This shocked most other Christians, leading to disrest between the denominations, but the governments were influenced by them all the same.
The food they usually ate and produced was corn, wheat and livestock. Women had a larger part in society than they did in England. In addition to taking care of the household, women could own shops, run farms and businesses, practice medicine, and sell services and products. |