Daughters of Liberty and Loyalist Women
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- Опубліковано 9 лют 2025
- The story of the American founding is typically told with a spotlight on the men who spoke in legislatures or fought in battles. "They were all men, all the time," says Professor Berkin before she asks, "Where were the women?" In reality, the Revolutionary War was a home-front war that disrupted most of the lives of the American colonists, including women.
Women were major participants in the political struggle for liberty. These politically engaged women called themselves "Daughters of Liberty," beginning with the Stamp Act. But, war eventually created desperate circumstances as trade embargoes generated scarcity and men left to fight in the army. Women shouldered greater responsibility as they maintained their farms alone and tried to prevent confiscation of their property. To escape rape and starvation, some women joined their husbands in the Continental Army. These women and others provided critical support for the army's maintenance. Other women married to Loyalist men experienced extreme hardships, persecuted as surrogates for their absent husbands. The achievement of American independence is the greatest story in America's history, but that story is often a tragic one.
Professor Berkin's excellent coverage of the women's experience of the American Revolutionary War is a vital offering to the full understanding of this nation's history. The detailed picture of seventeenth-century life with its reliance on farming, home production, life during war, and the political/social status of colonial women gives a full picture. Women are rarely bystanders or adjuncts to any history...American or otherwise, but always full participants in any historical record. Here the wonderful correction of the usual story of the Revolution places the importance of the female contributions and presence in this important time of the beginning of a new nation-state called "America." Thank you, professor Berkin and the American Revolution Institute for this fine program.
Always enjoy listening to you! Always informative!
Thank you for this. It's an extremely resourceful video for a very unrepresented topic. I vouch for your devotion on speaking the truth of history! Women are our greatest asset!
This is an incredible lecture. Thanks so much for it. There is so much more I know now, because of your lecture, I had no idea of before. The tragedy of the Loyalists who had to leave is especially poignant. Looking back all these years later, it seems a peaceful part of the population left Massachusetts.
Thank you for posting! You've presented this material in such an entertaining way!
I wish these were transcribed! This video is really helping my paper. Thanks!
Super informative. I think she meant Margaret Corbin rather than Hannah Corbin. The latter, an important figure, but not the one who fired cannons.
Great clip. How do I share it and how do I hear more from her?
Abigail Adams ran the farm better than John! It is in their letters! He gave her credit!
LET'S GO DEBORAH SAMSON!