Dr. Scott Stephenson
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of thousands of enslaved people found their way to British lines because freedom wore a red coat for them.
Women, of course, at the beginning of the revolutionary era, were not generally seen as political actors in the sense that they had the ability to vote.
But that doesn't mean they were not politically active in other ways.
All through the 1760s,
the non-importation movements, the production of domestic manufacturers, the so-called homespun movement, ways to put pressure on British manufacturers and British politicians to overturn acts and taxes.
A lot of those efforts depended upon women's active participation and support.
Because women often controlled the domestic consumption.
They managed households, and so making a decision not to purchase imported wares, imported tea, and to purchase things made in America, to produce through spinning and weaving, to produce domestically produced cloth.
Women, at the beginning of the Revolutionary War, when the war breaks out, I mean, there's lots of accounts of women
Encouraging men to enlist, presenting them like with hand embroidered and painted flags.
And, you know, there are speeches saying, we do not want you to return without honor.
When men leave farms, when they leave shops, women, as we found throughout all the conflicts in American history, have an elevated role in managing society.
domestic operations.
Famously, you know, Abigail Adams is left to, because of John's presence here in Philadelphia and then ultimately leaving for Europe as a diplomat during the war, you know, she's managing a farm, managing the labor of the farm and all of the domestic economy that goes along with that.
So the Museum of the American Revolution, we're a new museum.
We just opened in 2017, so we're just on the cusp of our 10th anniversary.
And we're located two blocks from Independence Hall, so we're right in the sort of historic core of Philadelphia.
There are about, at any given time, about 500 or so works of art, original objects, manuscripts on display in our core exhibition that we rotate regularly.
So if you come a couple months after a visit, you're likely to see a different printing of the Declaration of Independence or some new story that's brought together through new objects.
Of course,
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