Revolutionary mothers book6/30/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() She introduces us to 16-year-old Sybil Ludington, who sped through the night to rouse the militiamen needed to defend Danbury, Connecticut to Phillis Wheatley, literary prodigy and Boston slave who voiced the hopes of African Americans in poems to Margaret Corbin, crippled for life when she took her husband's place beside a cannon at Fort Monmouth to the women who gathered firewood, cooked, cleaned for the troops, nursed the wounded, and risked their lives carrying intelligence and participating in reconnaissance missions. ![]() We see how they managed farms, plantations, and businesses while their men went into battle, and how they served as nurses and cooks in the army camps, risked their lives seeking personal freedom from slavery, and served as spies, saboteurs, and warriors. We see women boycotting British goods in the years before independence, writing propaganda that radicalized their neighbors, raising funds for the army, and helping finance the fledgling government. The American Revolution was a home-front war that brought scarcity, bloodshed, and danger into the life of every American, and Carol Berkin shows us that women played a vital role throughout the struggle.īerkin takes us into the ordinary moments of extraordinary lives. ![]()
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