I don't see any casting for the Daughters of Liberty? The Sons of Liberty's wives had a major part in everything they did..
shareSo just where the DAR members? Daughters of the American Revolution ?
shareNot quite sure what you are asking as those aren't complete sentences, but the daughters of the American Revolution wasn't even founded until more than 100 years after this takes place. In all honesty, it was the men that risked their lives in this part of history. There are many women in history that have made their mark, but this is not about them. The show is focused on the men that formulated the plan to bring freedom to the colonies. Now go and learn some English so you can ask proper questions.
shareThe show is focused on the men that formulated the plan to bring freedom to the colonies.
I think there was a mixture of tax avoidance and some idealology going on. What a better way to be an American than by trying to avoid taxes! I mean the less I pay the happier I am. Not sure why this is always frowned upon.
In all seriousness, guys like the Adams, Jefferson, and even Benjamin Harrison were tired of the bulls*it they were getting from the King. Most of the signers of the Declaration were not very wealthy in the end.
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I don't know if this is a serious thread or a joke of some sort, but no, you're wrong.They really didn't.
Some of the Sons of Liberty like Sam Adams and Joseph Warren were widowers. Benjamin Franklin lost his wife shortly before the Revolution began.
George WAshington's wife was not a huge shaper of George's ideals and was not very much of a political creature.
Women who kept abreast of world events and acted as "silent partners" to their SOL husbands like Abigail Adams were exceptions, not rules.
"Whiskey for my men! And beer for my horses!"
T. Keith
Sam Adams remarried before the war.
shareThe clothes were clean, the men were well fed, the wounded tended, good job. Oh yeah, their marriages lasted.
shareThe Daughters were doing all they could to help the cause. A major concern was the boycott of British goods, especially textiles, which the colonists were completely dependent upon. They were instrumental in the manufacture of clothing from a rough "homespun" fabric, which patriots wore with pride.
However, there was one who went a bit over-the-top. After disguising herself as a man and joining the battle, she was wounded twice, and her real identity discovered. I believe she was commended by Washington himself.
I'd love to see them as more than a footnote to the larger drama taking place, but perhaps in their own movie? I don't know, you'd probably have disgruntled people wanting more Founding Father action. lol
Forget about it.
The miniscule number of women visibly present anywhere in this series, are extras placed in crowd/street/dinner parties or as bar maidens/sculleries and assorted tarts.
History is not the Lifetime, Hallmark, or Women's Network. This series and the History channel have decisively marketed their content at men, and that's their choice, only, they seem to forget or disregard that women are interested in history, too.
I guess, if ABC has idiotic shows supposedly directed at women, like the "Bachelor," (is there really and truly a viewership for this?) that any channel can direct/sell/market their content at men, or whomever.
The major thing one can truly wonder and question is...was the dumbing down (over the decades since 1960's) of 92% of television shows and especially news content a choice that was planned, and if so, by who, and for what purpose? But then they tell us...that they're just giving us what we want, right?
Why don't they change the History Channel's name from History to something that more aptly describes it, like "The Guy Channel,"
All nonsense aside, Abagail Adams and Martha Washington were true daughters of Liberty, along with Agent 355 in George Washington's spy ring, who has yet to be identified. Plus many more brave women we will never know anything about.
I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.
Thank you for proving my point.
People are saying there were no Daughters or that it was years after. Samuel Adams is often quoted as referring to the Daughters of Liberty by saying "With Uriel on our side, we can make every Tory tremble."
Esther de Berdt Reed- was married to Joseph Reed, one of George Washington's aides-de-camp.
Molly Pitcher- when her husband, William Hays, collapsed either from being wounded or from heat exhaustion, she took his place at a canon. When the battle ended, George Washington rewarded Molly Pitcher by making her a non-commissioned officer, and she became known as "Sergeant Molly". She was also part of a group of women led by Martha Washington, known as camp followers.
While I can relate to the fact that the history channel is geared toward men, I feel that people like Abigail Adams and mercy otis Warren were extremely valuable to the patriot cause. In Philadelphia, Elizabeth drinker and Lydia darragh both did their parts as unofficial spies for the continentals.
I believe someone else mentioned Deborah Sampson (?) As the woman who was a continental soldier.
But, like the title says, it's sons. And while none of these characters are new to anyone who paid attention in history class, I welcome any high profile miniseries that focuses on the revolution. As someone else said, there's very little out there.
Having said that, check out my original novel that --sort of-- takes place in the revolution.
http://www.fictionpress.com/s/3042433/1/The-Blackstall-Curve