United States, Georgia, 32.75042, -83.50018Caldwell, Lee Ann2004-01-23Encyclopedia article about women in Colonial Georgia. Women were important in the settlement of colonial Georgia from its very beginning in 1733. The founding Trustees of the Georgia colony understood "how necessary a Part Women are in a family" and wanted them to fulfill their traditional roles. The tasks of men and women in a frontier society were complementary; the agricultural and charitable goals of the Georgia colony required both for labor and stability. Throughout the colonial period women migrated and settled with families and religious groups, or sometimes as individuals seeking a new start. They came as wives, mothers, daughters, or sometimes alone as indentured servants or slaves. They were English, Salzburger, German, Scots, Irish, Sephardic Jews, and after 1750, African. Native American women also became part of the colonial fabric, although they did not come under the governance of the colonial government.GSE identifier: SS8H2text/htmlNew Georgia EncyclopediaForms part of the New Georgia Encyclopedia.http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/Forms part of the New Georgia Encyclopedia.Women slaves--GeorgiaWomen--Georgia--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775Indian women--Georgia--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775Women in Colonial GeorgiaText