Revolutionary Mothers: Women in the Struggle for America’s Independence-Fast Shipping

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A groundbreaking history of the American Revolution that “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 Angeles Times Book Review).

The American Revolution was a home-front war that brought scarcity, bloodshed, anddanger into the life of every this book, Carol Berkinshows us how women played a vital role throughout the conflict.

The women of theRevolution were most active at home, organizing boycotts of British goods, raisingfunds for the fledgling nation, and managing the family business while strugglingto maintain a modicum of normalcy as husbands, brothers and fathers Berkinalso reveals that it was not just the men who fought on the front lines, as in thestory of Margaret Corbin, who was crippled for life when she took her husband’s placebeside a cannon at Fort incisive and comprehensive history illuminatesa fascinating and unknown side of the struggle for American independence.