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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.
Berkin takes us into the ordinary moments of extraordinary lives. 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 seeking personal freedom from slavery, and served as spies, saboteurs, and warriors.
She introduces us to sixteen-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. Here, too, are Abigail Adams, Deborah Franklin, Lucy Knox, and Martha Washington, who lived with the daily knowledge that their husbands would be hanged as traitors if the revolution did not succeed. A recapturing of the experiences of ordinary women who lived in extraordinary times, and a fascinating addition to our understanding of the birth of our nation.
- Sales Rank: #984254 in Books
- Brand: Brand: Knopf
- Published on: 2005-02-01
- Released on: 2005-02-01
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.65" h x .98" w x 5.96" l,
- Binding: Hardcover
- 194 pages
- Used Book in Good Condition
From Publishers Weekly
Confronting "the gender amnesia that surrounds the American Revolution," historian Berkin (A Brilliant Solution: Inventing the American Constitution) offers a lively account of women's various roles in the long, bloody conflict. Early forms of resistance included boycotting British cloth--and thus dusting off retired spinning wheels--and tea as women used "their purchasing power as a political weapon." As the conflict became a war in city streets and the neighboring countryside, houses became war zones; ordinary women often served as spies, saboteurs and couriers. Camp followers (often soldiers' wives) provided logistical support (cooking, washing, sewing, nursing, finding supplies) and occasionally even fought; prostitutes kept up soldiers' sexual (and social) morale. Generals' wives, "admired while the ordinary camp followers were often scorned," accompanied their husbands in different style; they boosted morale with dinner parties and dancing. Berkin reaches beyond white "American" women to chart the experiences of Loyalist women ("targets of Revolutionary governments eager to confiscate the property of... traitors"), Native American women (for whom "an American victory would have... tragic consequences") and African-American women (whose "loyalties were to their own future, not to Congress or to king"). First-person accounts lend immediacy and freshness to a lucidly written, well-researched account that is neither a romantic version of "a quaint and harmless war" nor "an effort to stand traditional history on its head." Agent, Dan Green. (Feb.)
Copyright � Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
From Booklist
Historian Berkin begins with the premise that American women's participation in the struggle for independence was not restricted to such celebrated figures as Abigail Adams, Martha Washington, Betsy Ross, and the apocryphal Molly Pitcher. Although conventional histories have traditionally been limited to chronicling the heroic exploits of a handful of women as opposed to masses of men, in truth the creation of a new nation required the active involvement of countless numbers of females. The author has subdivided these many stories into chapters recounting the experiences of women who protested against English policy, women who toiled on the homefront, women who followed the army, generals' wives, Loyalist women, Native American women, and African American women. What eventually emerges is a splendid overview of the remarkable contributions made by a cultural cross section of women during the course of the American Revolution. Margaret Flanagan
Copyright � American Library Association. All rights reserved
Review
"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 descriptions 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
Most helpful customer reviews
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
Berkin’s prose is easy to grasp
By Waites Family
Revolutionary Mothers is an overview of the role women played in the revolutionary war. Since it was a home front war, American women were very close with the events. Among other roles, some acted as spies or messengers, organized funds for the troops, took care of homes and businesses while the men were away, or were actively involved in battles.
Revolutionary Mothers is a short, fairly general overview of the topic at hand. I think it is most suitable as supplemental material for a history course or as an introduction to the topic. I would have appreciated more depth to some sections, but perhaps the material was too scarce for this to be possible.
Because of this, the book does not have much of a narrative structure and I found it hard to retain interest while reading. That being said, Berkin’s prose is easy to grasp. She never ventures into the territory of academic jargon.
Of all the chapters, I found the one on Native American women to be the most enthralling. The material Berkin presents was entirely new to me, and I had never seen it covered in any of the numerous United States history courses I’ve taken over the years.
I would recommend Revolutionary Mothers for people looking to learn about women’s role in the Revolutionary war and how the war impacted women.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
Great Read.
By College Stealth
This is a really enjoyable book, one that even non-History buffs will enjoy; such as students. At first it looks kind of dull, but Berkin does a really good job of describing aspects of the Revolutionary War that are not often touched upon; these include camp wives (destitute and poor women who followed the soldiers around) and areas of rape that women may have faced and how it was portrayed in the newspapers against either side. One nice aspect is comparing British Camps to American camps, different treatments and philosophies. It is a pretty powerful narrative into a side of the war that is never thought about or discussed, but done with a large number of primary source documents that help to eliminate the element of Berkin "making up" a narrative about the events; rather, from the perspective of the women who lived it and their own journals, letters, and notes.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
I love this book
By Jill Fields
I love this book. I covers women's contributions leading up to and throughout the American revolution. From the wealthiest ladies to the poorest and enslaved women and their everyday strength and endurance during war. Myths are dispelled, and true heroes are revealed. Wonderful!
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