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Women in the Revolution. Tyree Davis and Kassie Gillitzer . Before the Revolution . Dependant on husbands Usually silent In charge of education Not much input on financial affairs . During/After the Revolution. During/After the Revolution.
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Women in the Revolution Tyree Davis and Kassie Gillitzer
Before the Revolution • Dependant on husbands • Usually silent • In charge of education • Not much input on financial affairs
During/After the Revolution • New appreciation for themselves and other women- Remember the Ladies • Less dependant on husbands • Financially aware -Quote from Sally Cobb Paine, “ WE have sow’d our oats as you desired had I been master I should have planted it to corn.” • More opinionated - Quote from Mary Willing Byrd, “My property is taken from me and I have no redress.” • Rape • Smallpox - Deciding whether or not to infect their children and themselves with it. Mary Willing Byrd Abigail Adams
During/After the Revolution • Jobs with the armies - Cooks, Nurses, Laundresses • Constant fear -Susan Mason Smith (13yrs) - Kept shoes on for days in case she needed a quick escape • Abigail Adams ,“We lived in a continual expectation of hostilities.”
Questions • What is the overall concept being explored it the text? • Is the concept question an important scholarship? • What is the significance of the overall question? • How was the material organized? • Was the author adequately deliver the main idea? How? • What was interesting? What grabbed your attention? • Was their anything you were surprised to see? • What will you remember?
About the Author • Professor in American History • Wrote - • Founding Fathers and Mothers:Gender Power and Forming of American Society • The Liberty Daughters: The Revolutionary Experience of American Women • Many more…… • 2. Education • Ph.D. Harvard University, 1969 • M.A. Harvard University, 1965 • B.A. University of Michigan, 1964 • Link - http://history.arts.cornell.edu/faculty-department-norton.php