How women in the south have been treated historically?

How southern women were treated historically?

Historian Donald W. Meinig argues that the imperial behavior of the United States dates back to the Louisiana Purchase. He describes the event as an “aggressive encroachment of one people upon the territory of another, resulting in the subjugation of that people to alien rule.” Here, he is referring to the U.S. policies toward the Native Americans, which he said were “designed to remold them into a people more appropriately conformed to imperial desires.”