Revolutionary notes
- 1. Women and the Revolutionary War
- 2. Women and the Emerging Crisis NA and AA Women take sides White Women Service NA and AA post-war White Women Women and Religion Notable Women
- 3. I. Women and the Emerging Crisis Involved as consumers and producers with taxes imposed by the British Spinning bees for manufacturing the yarn for homemade cloth AA women participated in spinning Women=Liberty Daughters NO British tea
- 4. II. NA and AA Women Take Sides NA 13,000 fought for the British Split Iroquois confederacy Many tribes women decided when to war Remember these same Colonist had taken much of their land B. AA British promised many of them freedom if they joined loyalist
- 5. British formed “Company of Black Pioneers” that consisted of 72 men, 15 women, and 8 kids
- 6. III. White Women Quaker women were pacifist Assumed that whatever their husband was on was the side they supported Some became spies
- 7. IV. Service A. Few fought in combat Some cross-dressed Some traveled with their husbands Nurses Prostitutes
- 8. “ Not a woman belonging to the army is to been seen with troops on their march”-GW “ that most male of institutions, the military”-historian
- 9. V. Post War NA and AA NA are hard to gauge Changing gender roles Women lost a lot of influence B. AA Women Many received freedom 42.3% that left NY were women with their kids Quakers anti-slave Many northern states AA gained freedom at 28
- 10. Networks of black institutions such as churches Slaves that were pregnant worked deep into their pregnancies
- 11. VI. White Women Mixed results Shopkeepers, teachers, innkeepers, servants, seamstresses “ Remember the ladies” No votes Improved education
- 12. VII. Women and Religion The Great Awakening Crucial for women New egalitarian with an appeal that cut across gender, class, race, and slave status More women than me in churches Be set for eternity with risks in child bearings
- 13. B. Jemina Wilkinson Said she was the female incarnation of Christ C. Mother Ann Lee Preacher and prophet Dressed like a male No sex D. Deacons and Elders E. Traveling preachers
- 14. F. AA Women Some brought Islam over from Africa Few churches condemned slavery Don’t follow master’s religion
- 15. VIII. Famous Women Martha Washington Born on June 2, 1731 in Virginia Many opportunities growing up Married Daniel Parke Custis (very wealthy) at 18 4 kids, 2 died in infancy Custis died at 46 leaving no will Fell in love with GW (8 months younger than her)
- 16. Lived at Mt. Vernon She joined him at Valley Forge in 1778 Beginning in 1789, she became the first first lady Lasted until 1797 GW died on Dec 14, 1799, causing Martha to shut herself off from the rest of the world Freed all her slaves in 1800 May 22, 1802, shed died
- 17. B. Sally Hemming Mixed-race slave of Thomas Jefferson Said to be the half sister of Jefferson’s wife, Martha Skelton Jefferson supposedly fathered children of Sally Mixed belief throughout history 1998 DNA tests Duties included being a nursemaid-companion
- 18. No known images or writings from her Children were light-skinned Descendants of Sally, have told stories how they descended from Jefferson Historians believe that we should take the evidence that’s there and come up with our own conclusion