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Revolutionary Mothers Summary

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In Revolutionary Mothers by Carol Berkin, Carol tries to make an argues that the revolution war isn’t just about the men, it’s also about the women and their important roles that they had during the war as well. Most history books don’t talk about the roles that the women do during wars, it’s mostly just about the men and what is going on, or why it’s happening. In this book she focuses more on the women of that time to hear their side of the story. Carol first focuses on the important roles women had in their society during the time period of 1600s and 1700s. The women made sure to focus on making sure their household and families were in order and they would leave knowledgeable issues and education to the men. Back then the women didn’t have any rights and where compassion to their husband, if they were married. If they weren’t married then it would be their father or other male who was relative. Women were considered as “helpmates” to their husbands to make sure their family was successful. Helpmates is someone who helps the other spouse with whatever they needed. By the …show more content…

There was a massive amount of goods and food shortage and the impacted affected everyone. The men had to go fight in the war, which left the women back at home having to run a farm and businesses all on their own just to protect their children. This was something that the women had never done before. Fighting started to head into the villages where the women and kids would be staying. Women were getting killed or raped because of the political views the family’s held. Some armies started to wipe out their crops and even their livestock’s which left the families without food. Sometimes the women would destroy their own land just so it wouldn’t fall into the hands of the enemy’s. The war dragged on for about a decade, which made the wives face the loss of their husband or even their own children in the

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