Evolution of Gender and Race Relations in Colonial North Carolina

The lives of men and women, women more than men, have changed a lot of the past couple years even decades and more than that. The interconnection of race and gender in the evolving social hierarchy of the early South, Colonial North Carolina, has changed. In Colonial North Carolina the main difference was on how the ways of “ordinary people” interacted with different genders and how race was different between the people of North Carolina. Peoples’ beliefs were the main thing that changed these views, but sometimes it reflected on political beliefs also. Between men and women sex was seen differently. Men and women’s views on sex were far from similar and this has affected their views on race and their views on each other. Views on sex has been

In Suspect Relations, Englishmen were going after Indian women. The Indian women would trade goods in return for the sex. Of course the Englishmen fell for this trick because that is all they wanted was sex. The Indian women would trick then men into having sex just so they could take their goods and leave the man confused in the morning. “European men took great interest in the physical appearance and sexual conduct of the Indian women” (61). This explains how Englishmen went for the Indian women because of their physical appearance was high and Englishmen were obliviously attracted to that or else they wouldn’t go after the Indian women. There were two kind of relationships Europeans seemed to know, long term which lead to marriage and short-term ones which people referred to them as prostitutes or “Trading Girls”. Trading Girls would use their bodies to get money from men. They would have certain parts of their bodies be “perfect” in a way that they could use them for money. These Trading Girls would be in short term relationships, not looking for marriage, just looking for money. Some Indian women decided not to be “trading girls” and would become a part of a formalized marriage. They wanted these formalized marriages with European men so that they knew something beneficial and they wanted to establish ties with influential outsiders. Cross-Cultural sex in Colonial North Carolina has showed many challenges between the two different