Revolutionary mothers
Subtitle: women in the struggle for America's independence
By: Carol Berkin.
Publisher: RB Large Print
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Prince Frederick, MD
Language: eng
Number of pages: 265
Subjects: Women -- United States -- Biography.; United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Women.; United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Participation, Female.; United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Biography.
Genres: Biography.
Description: The American Revolution was a home-front war that brought scarcity, bloodshed, and danger into the life of every American. 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 radicalized their neighbors, raising funds for the army, and helping finance the fledgling government. 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 carrying intelligence, participating in reconnaissance missions, or seeking personal freedom from slavery; served as spies, saboteurs, and warriors; and lived with the daily knowledge that their husbands could be hanged as traitors if the revolution did not succeed.
Notes: Originally published: New York : Knopf, 2005.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Clio's daughters, lost and found; title: "The easy task of obeying"; title: "They say it is tea that caused it"; title: "You can form no idea of the horrors"; title: "Such a sordid set of creatures in human figure"; title: "How unhappy is war to domestic happiness"; title: "A journey a crosse ye wilderness"; title: "The women must hear our words"; title: "The day of jubilee is come"; title: "It was I wo did it"; title: "There is no sex in soul."