Revolutionary mothers : women in the struggle for America's independence / Carol Berkin.
The American Revolution was a home-front war that brought scarcity, bloodshed, and danger into the life of every American colonist. The author shows that women played a vital role throughout the struggle: we see women boycotting British goods in the years before independence, writing propaganda that...
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Vintage Books,
2006.
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Table of Contents:
- Clio's daughters, lost and found
- "The easy task of obeying": Englishwomen's place in Colonial society
- "They say it is tea that caused it": women join the protest against English policy
- "You can form no idea of the horrors": the challenges of a home-front war
- "Such a sordid set of creatures in human figure": women who followed the Army
- "How unhappy is war to domestic happiness": generals' wives and the war
- "A journey a crosse ye wilderness": Loyalist women in exile
- "The women must hear our words": the Revolution in the lives of Indian women
- "The day of jubilee is come": African American women and the American Revolution
- "It was I who did it": spies, saboteurs, couriers, and other heroines
- "There is no sex in soul": the legacy of Revolution.