How did the Revolution affect the lives of women and slaves and did it change their lives in any way?
If you mean the American revolution, the participation of women was vital to the success of the revolt. In ‘America’s Women’ Gail Collins writes: ‘In the years leading up to the Declaration of Independence, resistance to the British was expressed mainly in boycotts of imported products. For the boycotts to work, women would have to step into the breach and provide the cloth and foodstuffs that could no longer be brought in from overseas. The housewives were also the family shoppers, and they were asked to shun all the ‘taxables’ – items that the British imposed levies on without the colonists’ consent. Getting the cooperation of the women was the critical challenge “without which ’tis impossible to succeed.” said the South Carolina patriot Christopher Gadsden in 1769. Tea was, of course, a very important battleground. it was an extremely popular drink in colonial America – half of all homes had teasets. Women patriots joined enthusiastically in the boycott. In 1774, fifty-one women in
