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Essay / Living in the 1600s and 1700s - 580
Many people living today have a distaste for manual labor, such as farming, crafting, laundry, or housekeeping. However, all of these tasks were included in the daily chore list of colonial children. While some people hate tiring work, others can't stand boredom. No matter how tired you were, you still had to go to church once or twice a day on the Sabbath. The only way to get out of work would be to get sick. Since the settlers' only medicines came from plants, the chances of dying or being scarred for life were high. If living through the 1600s and 1700s could be described in one word, it would be tedious. After all, illnesses were as common as air, every day was spent working or at least being productive in some way, and if there was time for a respite, it would be it. Sabbath day, a day dedicated to God. Diseases were common and widespread. in the colonies. Countless times, epidemics have struck everywhere, from big cities to small countrysides. Characterized by horrible rashes, smallpox was a despised disease that existed throughout history and throughout the colonies. If yes...