Revolutionary Mothers: Women in the Struggle for American Independence
Written by Carol Berkin
Reported by Donna Postel
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BOOK DESCRIPTION
The American Revolution was an internal war that brought scarcity, bloodshed, and danger to the lives 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 money for the military, and helping to finance the fledgling government. We see how they ran farms, plantations, and businesses while their men went off to fight, and how they served as nurses and cooks in military camps, risked their lives to free themselves from slavery, and served as spies, saboteurs and warriors. She introduces us to sixteen-year-old Sybil Ludington, who ran all night to wake up the militia needed to defend Danbury, Connecticut; to Phillis Wheatley, literary prodigy and Boston slave, who expressed the hopes of African Americans in poems; to Margaret Corbin, crippled for life when she took her husband's place near a cannon at Fort Monmouth; to the women who collected firewood, cooked, cleaned for the troops, tended to the wounded, and risked their lives carrying intelligence and participating in reconnaissance missions. Here, too, were Abigail Adams, Deborah Franklin, Lucy Knox, and Martha Washington, who lived every day knowing their husbands would be hanged as traitors if the revolution failed.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Carol Berkin is Presidential Professor of History at Baruch College. She is the author or co-author of numerous books, including Wondrous Beauty, The History Handbook, and Civil War Wives, and has worked as a consultant on several PBS and History Channel documentaries.
Donna Postel is fascinated by all kinds of stories and loves telling them. From memoir and biography to literary fiction, romance, mystery, and suspense, Donna uses her innate curiosity, talent, and decades of experience on stage and in the recording studio to bring the books to life.
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AUDIOBOOK DETAILS
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French language
Publisher: Tantor Media Inc.
Published on: April 10, 2018
ISBN: 9781977380012
Duration: 6 hrs 43 mins
Genres: Biography and autobiography / General, Biography and autobiography / Historical, Biography and autobiography / Women, History / General, History / United States / General, History / United States / Revolutionary period (1775-1800), History / Women, Social Sciences / General, Social Sciences / Women's Studies
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