Revolutionary Mothers: Women in the Struggle for America's Independence

Title: Revolutionary Mothers: Women in the Struggle for America's Independence
Author: Carol Berkin
I: 1708158
ISBN: 9781400075324
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2006
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Edition: Reprint
Number of Pages: 224
Section: History | United States | Revolutionary Period (1775-1800)
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Publisher Description:

A groundbreaking history of the American Revolution that "vividly recounts Colonial women's struggles for independence--for their nation and, sometimes, for themselves.... [Her] lively book reclaims a vital part of our political legacy" (Los Angeles Times Book Review).

The American Revolution was a home-front war that brought scarcity, bloodshed, and danger into the life of every American. In this book, Carol Berkin shows us how women played a vital role throughout the conflict.

The women of the Revolution were most active at home, organizing boycotts of British goods, raising funds for the fledgling nation, and managing the family business while struggling to maintain a modicum of normalcy as husbands, brothers and fathers died. Yet Berkin also reveals that it was not just the men who fought on the front lines, as in the story of Margaret Corbin, who was crippled for life when she took her husband's place beside a cannon at Fort Monmouth. This incisive and comprehensive history illuminates a fascinating and unknown side of the struggle for American independence.