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Question 1

July 10. We can assure the Public, that Spinning is so much encouraged among us, that a Lady in Town has within about three Weeks become a very good Spinner, though she never spun a Thread in her Life before."


What is the most likely source of this quotation?


A journal kept by a woman who was responding to the Townshend Acts


A journal kept by the son of a cotton farmer in Massachusetts


A newspaper article about colonial women who were learning a trade


A newspaper article covering the conditions working in textile mills