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Before the Revolution, Northern urban populations were overwhelmingly male; by 1806, women outnumbered men four to three in New York City. Increasing this disparity was the fact that the maritime industry was the largest employer of black males in the post-Revolutionary War period, taking many young black men away to sea for several years at a ...
In this way, the "Republican Mother" was considered a custodian of civic virtue responsible for upholding the morality of her husband and children. Although it is an anachronism, the period of Republican Motherhood is hard to categorize in the history of feminism. On the one hand, it reinforced the idea of a domestic women's sphere separate ...
This suggestion earned her the nickname, "Mother of the Tea Party." She was an active member of the Daughters of Liberty throughout the Revolution, and in later years, she helped to coordinate volunteer nurses to assist with the Battle of Bunker Hill. [6] Sarah Franklin Bache was a Daughter of Liberty and the daughter of diplomat Benjamin ...
Revolutionary Mothers: Women in the Struggle for America's Independence. Civil War Wives: The Lives & Times of Angelina Grimke Weld, Varina Howell Davis & Julia Dent Grant. Alfred A. Knopf. 2009. ISBN 9781400044467. OCLC 335678795. Wondrous Beauty: Betsy Bonaparte, the Belle of Baltimore Who Married Napoleon's Brother. Alfred A. Knopf. 2014.
Anne Bailey (c. 1742 – November 22, 1825) was a British-born American story teller and frontier scout who served in the fights of the American Revolutionary War and the Northwest Indian War. Her single-person ride in search of an urgently needed powder supply for the endangered Clendenin's Settlement (present-day Charleston , West Virginia ...
Grace Growden Galloway (1727–1782) was the wife of British loyalist Joseph Galloway.In the wake of the American Revolution, she faced severe hardships, including the confiscation of her property due to her husband's anti-independence stance, [1] [2] which led to the loss of her social standing and pride. [3]
Lucy Flucker Knox (August 2, 1756 – June 20, 1824) was an American revolutionary. She was the daughter of colonial official Thomas Flucker and Hannah Waldo, daughter of Samuel Waldo. She married Henry Knox, who became a leading officer in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. Lucy accompanied Henry and lived on the ...
Lockwood died on November 9, 1922, in Plymouth, Massachusetts, and was the last surviving founder of the Daughters of the American Revolution, as well as the only founder buried in Washington, D.C. [2] [6] Her work in founding the Daughters of the American Revolution is mentioned in Women and Patriotism in Jim Crow America (2005), by Francesca ...