Readers are apprised of taxation and rules of that era including the Stamp Act, Townshend Acts, Olive Branch Petition, Sugar Act, and Quartering Act (which required Americans to house and feed British troops). Phillis Wheatley's poetry was published in Massachusetts newspapers and gained international acclaim. The Wheatleys recognized Phillis to be ' extraordinarily' gifted and entered her into study programs. Phillis, a seven-year old slave, began life in America with an elite Boston family. Roberts gives credit to many other women who ' made their mark', including Eliza Lucas Pinckney, who at the tender age of sixteen successfully took charge of an ailing mother, a younger sister, and three plantations! Mercy Otis Warren was a politically-recognized voice-of-the-times through authorship of plays, poems, articles and pamphlets supporting the fight for freedom. Historical women mentioned include Abigail Adams, Martha Washington (who spent winters with her husband at his military bases and used her wealth to finance the revolution), Deborah Reed Franklin and Dolley Madison. From research into pamphlets, military records, private journals, personal letters and anecdotes, Roberts renders an account of historical events in Colonial America during the longest war in U.S.
Founding Mothers: The Women Who Raised Our Nation by Cokie RobertsĬokie Roberts reveals in Founding Mothers the stamina, determination, insight, and courage of patriotic women who played an important part in the ' forging' and ' raising' of a nation.
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