Liberty's Daughters by Mary Beth Norton5/28/2023 ![]() Professor Norton went to original sources, studying the private papers of more than 450 American families - urban and rural black and white, Northern and Southern, rich, and poor. The historians who perpetuate the opposite picture evidently neglegted to find out how the Colonial women themselves viewed their status, she contends. Prior to the revolution, she protests, they were not relatively equal partners in the home, didn't take part in business affairs, had rigidly defined gender roles, and lacked, a feeling of self-worth. Taking issue with influential histories - and indeed, the pictures she finds in most books on Colonial and post-Revolutionary America - this professor of history at Cornell combats the idea that Colonial women shared a halcyon era of equality with men before sinking into second-class citizenship and the Victorian vapors of the 19th century. The role of womenin America before, during, and after the revolution, challenging some widely held assumptions in the process. ![]()
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