Founding Mothers: The Women Who Raised Our NationHarper Collins, 2004 M04 13 - 384 páginas Cokie Roberts's number one New York Times bestseller, We Are Our Mothers' Daughters, examined the nature of women's roles throughout history and led USA Today to praise her as a "custodian of time-honored values." Her second bestseller, From This Day Forward, written with her husband, Steve Roberts, described American marriages throughout history, including the romance of John and Abigail Adams. Now Roberts returns with Founding Mothers, an intimate and illuminating look at the fervently patriotic and passionate women whose tireless pursuits on behalf of their families -- and their country -- proved just as crucial to the forging of a new nation as the rebellion that established it. While much has been written about the men who signed the Declaration of Independence, battled the British, and framed the Constitution, the wives, mothers, sisters, and daughters they left behind have been little noticed by history. Roberts brings us the women who fought the Revolution as valiantly as the men, often defending their very doorsteps. While the men went off to war or to Congress, the women managed their businesses, raised their children, provided them with political advice, and made it possible for the men to do what they did. The behind-the-scenes influence of these women -- and their sometimes very public activities -- was intelligent and pervasive. Drawing upon personal correspondence, private journals, and even favored recipes, Roberts reveals the often surprising stories of these fascinating women, bringing to life the everyday trials and extraordinary triumphs of individuals like Abigail Adams, Mercy Otis Warren, Deborah Read Franklin, Eliza Pinckney, Catherine Littlefield Green, Esther DeBerdt Reed, and Martha Washington -- proving that without our exemplary women, the new country might never have survived. Social history at its best, Founding Mothers unveils the drive, determination, creative insight, and passion of the other patriots, the women who raised our nation. Roberts proves beyond a doubt that like every generation of American women that has followed, the founding mothers used the unique gifts of their gender -- courage, pluck, sadness, joy, energy, grace, sensitivity, and humor -- to do what women do best, put one foot in front of the other in remarkable circumstances and carry on. |
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... England . ) Can you imagine a sixteen - year - old girl today being handed those responsibilities ? Eliza Lucas willingly took them on . Because she reported to her father on her management decisions and developed the habit of copying ...
... England was rice , and she was determined to find something else to bring currency into the colony and to make the plantations profitable . When she was nineteen , she wrote that she had planted a large fig orchard “ with design to dry ...
... England's war with Spain and the problems the colony faced as a consequence. Since no ships were arriving from the Mother Country, Eliza could only assume it was an embargo on shipping (it was) that was greatly interfering with her ...
... England as a substantial export . The Mother Country responded by paying a bounty to Carolina planters in an effort to cut out the French . Soon the dye became a source of considerable wealth for the colony , with the number of pounds ...
... England's war with Spain, which didn't end until 1748, caused a constant disruption in shipping, as a result all kinds of supplies were hard to come by. The Pinckneys brought looms onto the plantations and set the servants to weaving ...