Women in the American Revolution

Women in the American Revolution
Author: Barbara B. Oberg
Publsiher: University of Virginia Press
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2019-05-24
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780813942605

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Building on a quarter century of scholarship following the publication of the groundbreaking Women in the Age of the American Revolution, the engagingly written essays in this volume offer an updated answer to the question, What was life like for women in the era of the American Revolution? The contributors examine how women dealt with years of armed conflict and carried on their daily lives, exploring factors such as age, race, educational background, marital status, social class, and region. For patriot women the Revolution created opportunities—to market goods, find a new social status within the community, or gain power in the family. Those who remained loyal to the Crown, however, often saw their lives diminished—their property confiscated, their businesses failed, or their sense of security shattered. Some essays focus on individuals (Sarah Bache, Phillis Wheatley), while others address the impact of war on social or commercial interactions between men and women. Patriot women in occupied Boston fell in love with and married British soldiers; in Philadelphia women mobilized support for nonimportation; and in several major colonial cities wives took over the family business while their husbands fought. Together, these essays recover what the Revolution meant to and for women.

Those Remarkable Women of the American Revolution

Those Remarkable Women of the American Revolution
Author: Karen Zeinert
Publsiher: Twenty-First Century Books
Total Pages: 104
Release: 1996-01-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1562946579

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Examines the contributions of women, Patriot and Loyalist, to the American Revolution, on the battlefield, in the press, and in the political arena, and shows how they challenged traditional female roles

The Women of the American Revolution

The Women of the American Revolution
Author: Elizabeth Fries Ellet
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 378
Release: 1849
Genre: United States
ISBN: UOM:39015008355516

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Women in the American Revolution

Women in the American Revolution
Author: Sudie Doggett Wike
Publsiher: McFarland
Total Pages: 281
Release: 2018-01-16
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781476630878

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Without the support of American women, victory in the Revolutionary War would not have been possible. They followed the Continental Army, handling a range of jobs that were usually performed by men. On the orders of General Washington, some were hired as nurses for $2 per month and one full ration per day--disease was rampant and nurse mortality was high. A few served with artillery units or masqueraded as men to fight in the ranks. The author focuses on the many key roles women filled in the struggle for independence, from farming to making saltpeter to spying.

The Women of the American Revolution

The Women of the American Revolution
Author: Elizabeth F. Ellet
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 408
Release: 1850
Genre: United States
ISBN: BL:A0022705659

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The Role of Women in the American Revolution

The Role of Women in the American Revolution
Author: Hallie Murray
Publsiher: Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC
Total Pages: 104
Release: 2019-12-15
Genre: Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN: 9781502655578

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At the time of the American Revolution, women were not given many opportunities to participate in life outside the home. As many men headed off to war, their wives, daughters, and mothers had to take on new roles. Some women disguised themselves as men and fought as soldiers, while others helped the American war effort through spying and gathering information. Still others wrote and published revolutionary propaganda or helped raise money for the new American army and government. With this fascinating book, readers will be introduced to women working in all different capacities in the war that made America.

The Women of the American Revolution

The Women of the American Revolution
Author: Elizabeth F. Ellet
Publsiher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 414
Release: 2024-01-04
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9783375178659

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Reprint of the original, first published in 1856.

Women in the American Revolution

Women in the American Revolution
Author: Jerome L. Schulman,Paul Engle
Publsiher: Chicago : Follett
Total Pages: 328
Release: 1976
Genre: Children with disabilities
ISBN: UOM:49015000061276

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Recounts the histories of eighteen women who played both major and minor roles during troubled times. Women in the American Revolution proves that, although men might have comprised the physical force that drove back the British, women helped provide the spititual, intellectual, and material sustenance that kept the Revolutionary fires alive.