The book proposal

[My Name Is Kate]

It sounds like women were no more citizens of this country than slaves. They didn't have the right to vote, rarely if ever held office, were employed only in the lowest occupations if at all, and were basically the property of their husbands, producing on average a dozen children each, about half of whom died in infancy. And children had no rights at all. Sure glad I didn't live in those days.

OTOH, I doubt that anyone in the old days had to worry about some pre-teen, AK-47-toting terrorist who might blow off someone's head for looking wrong at him.