The Middle Ages was a time of hardwork and dedication for women from teen years to adulthood. Women worked with and for their husbands at anytime. They had roles suck as caring for the children, preparing food, and helping with the livestock. At some point, they joindd their husband im the fields to help with crips. They also worked im vital cottage industries, such as baking , brewing, and manufacturing textiles. All through the Middle Ages women were often dictated by biblical texts. As there were house and field women there were "successful" women who held high positions in certain areas. For example there were queens and abbesses of convents who were women. There were alot of women who couldn't control their own lives. There were many that had to marry and become a nun. Young women (teenagers) were married and they were responsible to handle business as it was told like an adult woman. Women in the Middle Ages had it bad to the point it became bad for them during pregnancy , but not all women have to work as hard as the others , but they all were looked at as the same.
Ralph Ellison was born in 1913 where racism was very much alive. However, years later he applied and got accepted into an all black college by the name of Tuskegee University but as he made his way to the school and got settled in he realized that the all black college is the same as an all white college, he didn’t see not difference only skin color. But during his college life and after in the 1930s the Great Depression had started. Times was already bad for African Americans but this made it worse. During this time blacks were the first to be laid off from jobs that they had been working hard to keep. The spark of the African Americans coming together to get what they deserved created something called the New Deal. Also, when Ellison book was published in 1945 the Civil Rights Movement was starting to make some noise throughout every state. This was a good time that his book released because it showed how whites looked at blacks and how they ca...
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