Women's Role In The Revolutionary War

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The Revolution was the best thing to happen to the American´s. It gave them freedom from the Britians. This may be true but with that victory came hardship. I´m not just talking from the soldiers but from others besides them. What I'm talking about are the women, loyalist, African Americans, and the Native Americans. These are their hardships. First off let me start with the women. They were made to wash, clean, and cook for the soldiers. Some helped reload artillery, but mostly they worked as nurses. There were some women who managed to be in the war. They only were put in there because they had managed to dress like men. During that time they only allowed men to be in the war. This had made the women mad because they knew they could help. Now I don't mean cooking, and cleaning. I mean being out there fighting…show more content…
Exactly like the women the slaves thought things would change. They thought after the war the might actually be thought of real people just like the white men. Little did they know that would never happen. Even though the slave trade was banned the actual slavery of it was still alive and well. After the war slavery continued despite their best efforts in the war. Some slaves were even promised freedom after the war just to realize after it´s all over they have to get back to work in the fields. There were somewhere between 5,000 African Americans in the war. Some of those were free slaves just trying to fight for what they believe in. Even though some were free the rest were not. That meant that after the war was over the ones who aren´t free had to return to work depending upon if they returned alive. There may have been a lot of African Americans in the war but a lot didn´t know how to fight. John Laurens tried to get that fixed but no matter how much he tried it never truly happened. All of this did not sit well with the African Americans. Just like the women they thought there differences might finally be

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