The American Revolution was a home-front war that brought scarcity, bloodshed, and danger into the life of every American, and Carol Berkin shows us that women played a vital role throughout the struggle--taking 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 funds for the army, and helping finance the fledgling government.  We see how they managed farms, plantations, and businesses while their men went into battle, 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.

Berkin introduces us to Sybil Ludington; Phillis Wheatley; Margaret Corbin; Abigail Adams; Deborah Franklin; Lucy Knox; Martha Washington and the women who gathered firewood, cooked, cleaned for the troops, nursed the wounded and risked their lives carrying intelligence and participating in reconnaissance missions.*

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*from the book jacket