She is the author of Jonathan Sewall: Odyssey of an American Loyalist (1974), First Generations: Women of Colonial America (1996), A Brilliant Solution: Inventing the American Constitution (2001), Revolutionary Mothers: Women in the Struggle for America’s Independence(2004) and Civil War Wives: The Life and Times of Angelina Grimke Weld, Varina Howell Davis, and Julia Dent Grant (2009).Ĭontinue the George Rogers Clark Lecture series with the 2014 lecture, George Washington and the Newburgh Conspiracy. In the 2013 George Rogers Clark Lecture, Carol Berkin describes the challenges loyalist and patriot women overcame in the Revolutionary era.Ĭarol Berkin is a professor of history at Baruch College. Loyalist women were often stripped of their property and persecuted as punishment for their husband’s politics. Patriot women maintained boycotts of imported goods, joined the army disguised as men, acted as spies and followed the Continental Army. Revolutionary Mothers: Women in the Struggle for Americas Independence Edition: Reprint Author: Carol Berkin Publisher: Vintage Release Date: 2006 ISBN-13. Berkin is the author of Revolutionary Mothers: Women in the Struggle for America’s Independence, A Brilliant Solution: Inventing the American Constitution, Jonathan Sewall: Odyssey of an. While men left to fight, women shouldered greater responsibility as they maintained their farms alone and tried to prevent confiscation of property. A groundbreaking history of the American Revolution that vividly recounts Colonial womens struggles for independence-for their nation and, sometimes. This edition: Carol Berkin, Professor of American History, CUNY Graduate Center and Baruch College, and author, Revolutionary Mothers: Women in the Struggle. The American Revolution was a home-front war that brought scarcity, bloodshed and danger into the life of every American, women included.
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