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“Berkin 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 Angles Times Book Review
“Compact and informative. . . one is simply bowled over by the
courage and fortitude of these women.” —The Washington Times
“Berkin is a great storyteller . . . her dedication to telling
the stories of these women is evident.” —The Christian Science
Monitor
“[Berkin] illuminates the many way women on both sides of the
conflict performed as couriers, spies, saboteurs, camp followers
[and] noble and enduring wives.” —The Washington Post Book
World
”Carol Berkin has merged the craft of the skilled historian and
the sensitivity of a master storyteller with her sensibilities as a
pioneering scholar of women to produce the best narrative of how
women of diverse backgrounds experienced the American Revolution.”
—Edith Gelles, author of Portia: The World of Abigail Adams
”Revolutionary Mothers is an accessible, lively blend of great
story-telling and recent scholarship, the most comprehensive study
yet published of women in the American Revolution. Readers of all
de*ions will enjoy and learn from it.” —Mary Beth Norton,
author of In the Devil’s Snare: The Salem Witchcraft Crisis of
1692
“Revolutionary Mothers is vintage Carol Berkin, incisive,
thoughtful and spiced with vivid anecdotes that add another
dimension to the narrative. Don’t miss it.” —Thomas Fleming, author
of Liberty! The American Revolution
”Revolutionary Mothers is a treat to read. Not only is Carol
Berkin a skillful writer, but she has placed women squarely at the
center of the independence movement. By showing the different roles
women played, she moves the battlefield to wherever women were
forced to make choices and employ their talents. Elite, poor, Euro,
Native, and African American women collide in Berkin’s book, as do
the rebels and loyalists who were once friends and neighbors. A
valuable and readable book.” —Elaine Crane, author of Ebb Tide in
New England: Women, Seaports, and Social Change, 1630-1800
The American Revolution was a home-front war that brought
scarcity, bloodshed, and danger into the life of every American. In
this groundbreaking history, 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.
INTRODUCTION: Clio’s Daughters, Lost and Found
CHAPTER ONE: “The Easy Task of Obeying”
Englishwomen’s Place in Colonial Society
CHAPTER TWO: “They say it is tea that caused it”
Women Join the Protest Against English Policy
CHAPTER THREE: “You can form no idea of the horrors”
The Challenges of a Home-Front War
CHAPTER FOUR: “Such a sordid set of creatures in human
Figure”
Women Who Followed the Army
CHAPTER FIVE: “How unhappy is war to domestic happiness”
Generals’ Wives and the War
CHAPTER SIX: “A journey a Crosse ye wilderness”
Loyalist Women in Exile
CHAPTER SEVEN: “The women must hear our words”
The Revolution in the Lives of Indian Women
CHAPTER EIGHT: “The day of jubilee is come”
African American Women and the American Revolution
CHAPTER NINE: “It was I who did it”
Spies, Saboteurs, Couriers, and Other Heroines
CHAPTER TEN: “There is no Sex in soul”
The Legacy of Revolution
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index
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