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Voices of Revolutionary America: Contemporary Accounts of Daily Life
This book describes the everyday lives of people during the American Revolution as they adapted to the political and military conflicts of the time.
Students studying the American Revolutionary War learn primarily about battles and how independence from the British was achieved. In Voices of Revolutionary Contemporary Accounts of Daily Life , readers get the largely untold story of the American the ongoing issues and details of life in the background, behind the battles.
This book surveys the entirety of the Revolutionary era, describing topics like marriage, childbirth, learning a trade, cost of living, slavery, and religion in the late 18th century. While some documents from the 1760s and early 1770s are provided to present general information about life, the book focuses on the years of the war from 1775 to 1783 and describes how the prolonged conflict impacted people's day-to-day lives.
Students studying the American Revolutionary War learn primarily about battles and how independence from the British was achieved. In Voices of Revolutionary Contemporary Accounts of Daily Life , readers get the largely untold story of the American the ongoing issues and details of life in the background, behind the battles.
This book surveys the entirety of the Revolutionary era, describing topics like marriage, childbirth, learning a trade, cost of living, slavery, and religion in the late 18th century. While some documents from the 1760s and early 1770s are provided to present general information about life, the book focuses on the years of the war from 1775 to 1783 and describes how the prolonged conflict impacted people's day-to-day lives.
292 pages, Hardcover
First published May 23, 2011
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