The labor of enslaved women helped sustain the households, farms and local economies that made the American Revolution possible, even as those women were denied the liberty the revolution promised. That contradiction is at the heart of “Bearing the Nation: Enslaved Women, Labor, and the Creation of the United States,” an America 250 lecture to be presented Saturday afternoon at the Suffolk… Source
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