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This 3 page paper discusses the book “Revolutionary Mothers” by Carol Berkin, about the contribution women made to the American fight for independence. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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her aim to tell the story of that half of the country that is usually left out of the accounts of the nations founding-women. Discussion Leigh Montgomery of The Christian
Science Monitor reviewed the book and noted that histories of the early days of the country have become increasingly popular in recent years. David McCulloughs biography of John Adams, for
example, was a best seller. But all the history being written about those days "omitted half the society that contributed to it" (Montgomery). This book is Carol Berkins effort "to
fill in those omissions, to tell the story of womens political activity during the 18th century" (Montgomery). Most writers of these histories are men, so perhaps their bias is natural,
or even unrecognized. But without examining womens contributions to the Revolution, its not possible to understand the depth of the event. Berkin found much of the information she presents in
letters, written in the family Bible, or handed down through the family as oral history (Montgomery). These are not stories about women who picked up rifles and went to war
(though a handful did) but about the efforts of ordinary women to help the cause of independence. They boycotted British goods; they wrote propaganda; they raised money for the army
and to support the new government ("About this book"). Berkin shows how they ran farms and plantations while the men went off to fight, 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" ("About this book"). In the process, Berkin argues,
they changed their own lives and the way they saw themselves and their place in the world, and thereby changed the lives of all the women who have come after
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