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Founding Mothers: The Women Who Raised Our Nation by Cokie Roberts
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mari1532's review against another edition
informative
medium-paced
2.5
I would give this book a 2.5 out of 5.
I checked this audiobook out of my local library and in all honestly, I have really conflicted feelings about it. All of the historical information about the women from the revolutionary period was fascinating because so often women are lost to history because they were not deemed important enough to record in records and time results in the loss of materials. However, I feel that Roberts did not paint a holistic picture of these women because it is barely mentioned that these women were enslavers. Roberts spent a lot of time discussing how these women spent their time managing the businesses (i.e., plantations) of their husbands without ever really mentioning what the business was or that there were people enslaved to make the profits they garnered.
Although I learned a lot of new facts about the subjects of this book (because in none of my history classes did we discuss the women of this period) I feel that it is not a comprehensive history.
I checked this audiobook out of my local library and in all honestly, I have really conflicted feelings about it. All of the historical information about the women from the revolutionary period was fascinating because so often women are lost to history because they were not deemed important enough to record in records and time results in the loss of materials. However, I feel that Roberts did not paint a holistic picture of these women because it is barely mentioned that these women were enslavers. Roberts spent a lot of time discussing how these women spent their time managing the businesses (i.e., plantations) of their husbands without ever really mentioning what the business was or that there were people enslaved to make the profits they garnered.
Although I learned a lot of new facts about the subjects of this book (because in none of my history classes did we discuss the women of this period) I feel that it is not a comprehensive history.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Colonisation, Classism, and Misogyny
Moderate: War
Minor: Slavery
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