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　　The American Revolution was a home-front war that brought

scarcity, bloodshed, and danger into the life of every American. In

this groundbreaking history, Carol Berkin shows us how women played

a vital role throughout the conflict.

The women of the Revolution were most active at home, organizing

boycotts of British goods, raising funds for the fledgling nation,

and managing the family business while struggling to maintain a

modicum of normalcy as husbands, brothers and fathers died. Yet

Berkin also reveals that it was not just the men who fought on the

front lines, as in the story of Margaret Corbin, who was crippled

for life when she took her husband’s place beside a cannon at Fort

Monmouth. This incisive and comprehensive history illuminates a

fascinating and unknown side of the struggle for American

independence.

INTRODUCTION: Clio’s Daughters, Lost and Found

CHAPTER ONE: “The Easy Task of Obeying”

Englishwomen’s Place in Colonial Society

CHAPTER TWO: “They say it is tea that caused it”

Women Join the Protest Against English Policy

CHAPTER THREE: “You can form no idea of the horrors”

The Challenges of a Home-Front War

CHAPTER FOUR: “Such a sordid set of creatures in human

Figure”

Women Who Followed the Army

CHAPTER FIVE: “How unhappy is war to domestic happiness”

Generals’ Wives and the War

CHAPTER SIX: “A journey a Crosse ye wilderness”

Loyalist Women in Exile

CHAPTER SEVEN: “The women must hear our words”

The Revolution in the Lives of Indian Women

CHAPTER EIGHT: “The day of jubilee is come”

African American Women and the American Revolution

CHAPTER NINE: “It was I who did it”

Spies, Saboteurs, Couriers, and Other Heroines

CHAPTER TEN: “There is no Sex in soul”

The Legacy of Revolution

Notes

Acknowledgments

Index

　　Carol Berkin, professor of American history at Baruch College

and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, is the

author of A Brilliant Solution: Inventing the American

Constitution, First Generations, and Jonathan Sewall. She lives in

New York City.

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“Berkin 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 Angles Times Book Review

　　“Compact and informative. . . one is simply bowled over by the

courage and fortitude of these women.” —The Washington Times

　　“Berkin is a great storyteller . . . her dedication to telling

the stories of these women is evident.” —The Christian Science

Monitor

　　“[Berkin] illuminates the many way women on both sides of the

conflict performed as couriers, spies, saboteurs, camp followers

[and] noble and enduring wives.” —The Washington Post Book

World

　　"Carol Berkin has merged the craft of the skilled historian and

the sensitivity of a master storyteller with her sensibilities as a

pioneering scholar of women to produce the best narrative of how

women of diverse backgrounds experienced the American Revolution."

—Edith Gelles, author of Portia: The World of Abigail Adams

　　"Revolutionary Mothers is an accessible, lively blend of great

story-telling and recent scholarship, the most comprehensive study

yet published of women in the American Revolution. Readers of all

de*ions will enjoy and learn from it." —Mary Beth Norton,

author of In the Devil’s Snare: The Salem Witchcraft Crisis of

1692

　　“Revolutionary Mothers is vintage Carol Berkin, incisive,

thoughtful and spiced with vivid anecdotes that add another

dimension to the narrative. Don't miss it.” —Thomas Fleming, author

of  Liberty! The American Revolution

　　"Revolutionary Mothers is a treat to read. Not only is Carol

Berkin a skillful writer, but she has placed women squarely at the

center of the independence movement. By showing the different roles

women played, she moves the battlefield to wherever women were

forced to make choices and employ their talents. Elite, poor, Euro,

Native, and African American women collide in Berkin's book, as do

the rebels and loyalists who were once friends and neighbors. A

valuable and readable book." —Elaine Crane, author of Ebb Tide in

New England: Women, Seaports, and Social Change, 1630-1800

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The American Revolution was a home-front war that brought scarcity, bloodshed, and danger into the life of every American. In this groundbreaking history, Carol Berkin shows us how women played a vital role throughout the conflict. The women of the Revolution were most active at home, organizing boycotts of British goods, raising funds for the fledgling nation, and managing the family business while struggling to maintain a modicum of normalcy as husbands, brothers and fathers died. Yet Berkin also reveals that it was not just the men who fought on the front lines, as in the story of Margaret Corbin, who was crippled for life when she took her husband’s place beside a cannon at Fort Monmouth. This incisive and comprehensive history illuminates a fascinating and unknown side of the struggle for American independence.