“The kids will die of hunger, or they might freeze due to the bad weather condition without a proper shed, we do not need food neither can we get any-please to come home,” wrote one of the distressed solder’s wives. They were so distressed with their poverty too.
She shows that the women were too frightened with their husbands at war, and they went ahead to beg them to come home. The first weakness of this book Revolution Mothers, is that the way Berkins portrays the war is too ambiguous. Some agreed because that was the only way they could feed their children. Women risked their sanity when they went to work at the military camps where some military men wanted to take advantage of their desperate situations to have sex with them. This brought about the risk of freezing since there were no proper warm clothes to put on. Poor weather conditions were another problem, mainly when they fought during winter. For example, Margaret Corbon got an injury that was to stay, which led to her compensation. People were left with permanent scars to be remembered for good.
Widows were left behind with children to tend to orphaned children were also left behind with nothing since a lot of property was destroyed too during the war. There was an insufficient supply of needs, no suitable clothes for them, and no capital for them to purchase. There was no proper communication between the troop members or even with the commander. The problems that the Americans, in general, went through are also brought out in this British army, were brutal, which led to a lot of Americans losing their lives. Carol Berkins also shows what happened after the war, more so where the women were not given equal rights as their husbands during the drafting of the constitution. The book sheds light on the real struggle and shedding of blood that Americans went through during their struggle for independence and prompted its publication. This is because husbands, fathers, and brothers had died during the war.
Women were arranging patronage of the British wares, and they managed the family business while striving to keep the normality of having a husband around but minimally. The ladies were the most diligent at home they raised capital for the fledgling country.
In this book, Revolutionary Mothers, Carol Berkins majorly shows the vital role women played during the American Revolution war and America’s real struggle before independence.
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