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As a "Continent ravaged by a series of revolutionary movements".
After the events of the Second World War, the European countries which held colonies in the African Continent were no longer able to assign economic resources for their adequate maintenance, as they were heavily indebted due to the war. This lack of resources and subsequent mismanagement lead to a series of revolts within the African Colonies, which at the time were French Algeria, Portugues Angola, the Belgian Congo, and British Kenya.
Plymouth "always remained small. After the founding of the [Massachusetts] Bay Colony, its population declined. When in the 1660s it could count three thousand souls within its boundaries, it was still only one-fourth or one-third the size of the Bay Colony." Powers does not give any source for his population estimate of <span>3000.</span>
The women urge their families to invest to sewing machines as this will allow them to make clothes of their own and in the same time, this will allow them to make clothes for the purpose of selling it to the market in order to earn money for themselves and for their family.
