145 Mercy Otis Warren and the American Revolution
Ben Franklin's World
Liz Covart
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🗓️ 1 August 2017
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Mercy Otis Warren wasn’t your typical early American woman. She was a woman with strong political viewpoints, which she wrote about and published for the world to see and consider.
Did anyone take her views seriously?
Did her writings sway public opinion in the direction of her political views?
In this episode, Rosemarie Zagarri, a professor of history at George Mason University and author of A Woman’s Dilemma: Mercy Otis Warren and the American Revolution, helps us kick off a new, six-episode series about the people of the American Revolution by taking us through the life of Mercy Otis Warren.
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