In Revolutionary Mothers: Women in the Struggle for America’s Independence, Carol Berkin makes the contention that the Revolutionary War was not only about the men, but about the Women too. The women during this time period played an active and essential part in the war. Berkin demonstrates that women had an extraordinary impact in the Revolution by writing about Colonial white women, Native American women, and African American slave women of this time period. She shows the war through the eyes of women of both high and low social classes, and in addition women who upheld the Patriot and Loyalist reasons during the long war between the new found world and its colonies, and great power of England. By doing this, Berkin permits the reader to
