Radical Possibility Of The American Revolution Analysis

In the Radical Possibilities of the American Revolution Gordon S. Wood shows us the road to the Revolution and the American state power through the social acts of the colonist. The colonist came to this new place in hopes of finding a better quality of life that they were in control of. While this all seemed to be happening fast for the Americans, Woods argued that it was hard for them to keep up with all the changes leaving them in a state of uncertainty with their welfare. Since they had earned their liberty in their new place, that was much better off than others, it was something that they were very fearful of loosing. It was the Americas dependency to Britain that led to this social journey in which they saw changes in large powers like politics, patriarchal monarchy, and slavery that generated the …show more content…
The woman and children received different rights but still were dependent to their husbands, leading to people refusing the idea of dependency all around in a social light. The decline in servants and slaves was directly related to the “ post-revolutionary republican culture talking of nothing but liberty, equality, and independence, (where) even hired servants eventually became harder to come by or to control.”.11 This also led many people to work for their society in forms of business, but caused problems between the masters and journeyman. Soon after, as a rippling effect, the journeymen wanted to be separate from their employers.12 The Americans were now more socially aware of their actions to others like Abigail Adams said to her husband “doing to others as we would that others should do unto us.”, was an underlying moral understanding of the people.13 Showing that through this new republican society, that men have guided, Americans have become socially aware and responsible of their