Revolutionary mothers: women in the struggle for America's independence

"Easy task of obeying": Englishwomen's place in colonial society --

"They say it is tea that caused it: women join the protest against English policy --

"You can form no idea of the horrors: the challenges of a home-front war --

"Such a sordid set of creatures in human figure": women who followed the army --

"How unhappy is war to domestic happiness": generals' wives and the war --

"Journey a crosse ye wilderness": loyalist women in exile --

"Women must hear our words": revolution in the lives of Indian women --

"Day of jubilee is come": African American women and the American Revolution --

"It was I who did it": spies, saboteurs, couriers, and other heroines --

"There is no sex in soul": the legacy of revolution.