TABLE OF CONTENTS
About the Author
Rosemarie Zagarri received her PhD from Yale University in 1984. Her most recent book is Women and Politics in the Early American Republic (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007). Dr. Zagarri's work focuses on gender and politics during the American Revolution and the early years of the country.
Causes of the American Revolution
"A Society of Patriotic Ladies" (1775)
Annotation
This political cartoon, published in London, satirizes the actions of the women of Edenton, NC, who in 1774 gathered together to sign a document supporting the Continental Congress's boycott of British goods. The image reveals both the active participation of women in political activities prior to the American Revolution and the hostility that women's political participation provoked in some quarters, in England as well as America.
From the Library of Congress. "A Society of Patriotic Ladies, at Edenton in North Carolina." Accessed May 30, 2012.