Revolutionary mothers: women in the struggle for America's independence [1st Vintage books ed] 9780307427496, 0307427498, 9781299108219, 1299108210

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.

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