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In the spring of 1622, the Colonists complained they were too weak to —work raising food. Although they were, on the whole, deeply religious, some were so hungry that they stole food from their starving fellow-workers.
Young men complained because they had to work hard to feed other men and their wives and children. Strong men who were heads of families griped. . They said that even though they put in long hours and raised good crops, they and their children received no more food or clothes than men who were unable or unwilling to put in more than a few hours’ work a day.
Women rebelled when ordered to cook for men not their husbands, or when requested to wash their clothes. And what about the husbands of women who had been set at these jobs? Their wives, they growled, were little better than slaves, and many men declared they wouldn’t permit their women-folk to do that kind of work.
After months of bitter complaints, the Governor and chief men of the Colony came to the conclusion that they were making a bad mistake. As Governor Bradford said, they had thought they were “wiser than God.”
Ana so, in 1623, they turned away from government dictation and gave each family a parcel of land for its own use.
Then what a change* took place ! Even the women went into the fields willingly, taking their chil
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