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I'm John Batchel, visiting with the author and historian Molly Beer. Her book is Angelica for love and country in a time of revolution. Angelica is featured, I'm told, in a very big hit

musical called Hamilton, which I do not know,

but I'm familiar now with the plot on the line enough to know.

The Angelica you see on stage is not the historical Angelica, but the spirit of Angelica,

because she had connections that are blinding.

She knows everybody that we've had to learn in the fourth grade

as founders of the country, including Abigail Adams. Good heavens.

So we need to put her through the war, however. She starts having babies as the war breaks out.

What I'm struck by, Molly, is how childbirth doesn't slow them

down to read in the parts. Angelica has a child. Several weeks later, she's fighting the revolution.

Is that the assumption that women were going to not need time by themselves and just get right back to their duties?

There was certainly a mandated lying in period, which she, you know, would observe with each of her children.

You know, there's sort of a two-month period where she doesn't move.

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