It was a time when women had few rights and no say in political decisions or other matters of importance. It was a time when it was believed that women didn't have the emotional or mental capacities for higher learning and insightful thinking (and yet this era was known as the Age of Enlightenment!). Our story is a collection of reports about women from each colony, of all races, free and enslaved, who dared to resist the ?norms? of 18th-century western culture in order to stand for their beliefs and their rights. These are stories of courage and hope from the nation's first generation that would inspire women throughout the course of American history!