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Women of the American Revolution
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Ep 16 | American Revolution | 7 | Republican motherhood and the long impact of the Revolution (with Carol Berkin)
What was a woman's role to be when the men came home?
Mercy Otis Warren, female politicians and the radical (but short-lived) protofeminism of the 1790s
Women agitated for civil and political rights on both sides of the Atlantic. Men feared "the despotism of the petticoat".
Ep 15 | American Revolution | 6 | Mercy Otis Warren (with Rosemarie Zagarri)
"She was the preeminent female politician"
Phillis Wheatley Peters, first (unofficial) poet laureate of the United States
Much of what we thought we knew about the first published and celebrated African American poet was wrong
Ep 14 | American Revolution | 5 | Phillis Wheatley Peters (with Vin Carretta)
"The unofficial poet laureate of the new United States"
She heard that "all men are born free and equal". So she called their bluff.
Elizabeth Freeman was the first woman to sue for – and win – her freedom from slavery
