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“Deputy Husbands� is an informative article written to help students of today understand better the workings of colonial households of the 18th century. The purpose of this article was to give students another way to look at the way colonial households were run, what the men’s roles were and where the women fit into those roles. Ulrich writes with many different opinions from other authors, giving the reader a broader look at what historians believe was going on.
The author’s thesis is informing the reader that women did have more roles in colonial times than many people consider. Ulrich is trying to help the reader better understand how the women fit into colonial society alongside their husbands not as a “house wife� who did all the cooking, cleaning ect. This was summarized into three assumptions “1) the husband was supreme in the external affairs of the family…2) A husband’s decisions would, however, incorporate his wife’s opinions and interests…3)......

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