They can be regarded as worse than in the colonial period.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
Of course, women had played a vital role in the lives of their sons and daughters throughout the colonial period.
Rotundo, E. Anthony American Manhood: Transformations in Masculinity from the Revolution to the Modern Era (1993)
Yet many of the laws remained in force through the colonial period without rousing much local opposition.
Garraty, John Arthur The American Nation: A History of the United States to 1877 (1995)