List of People in Women’s History

This list is, by and large, in chronological order. Included are keywords associated with each
person to help you decide who you want to consider. This list is incomplete! If there’s
somebody you’d like to research not found on this list, please just email the professor to
confirm that it’s ok.
• Pocahontas (Native American, early American history, British colonies)
• Malintzin (Native American, early American history, Spanish colonialism)
• Mary Rowlandson (White woman captured by Native Americans, British colonies)
• Ann Bradstreet (early female poet, British colonies)
• Anne Hutchinson (White woman, religious leader and reformer, British colonies)
• Charity and Sylvia (Lesbians in early America)
• Tituba (only Black/indigenous woman accused of witchcraft at Salem)
• Rebecca Nurse (one of the many women accused of witchcraft at Salem)
• Mary Dyer (Quaker in British colonies hanged for violating Puritan policies)
• Sacagawea (Native American woman, early U.S. history post-Revolution)
• Abigail Adams (women’s rights advocate, wife of President John Adams)
• Phyllis Wheatley (first African American author of a book of poetry)
• Sally Hemmings (enslaved woman owned by President Thomas Jefferson who had
several of his children).
• Sarah and Angelina Grimke (white women, abolitionists, advocates of women’s
rights)
• Harriet Tubman (formerly enslaved woman, abolitionist, leader of Underground
Railroad)
• Margaret Fuller (White woman, author, transcendentalist, advocate of women’s
rights)
• Sojourner Truth (formerly enslaved woman, abolitionist and women’s rights
activist)