Working The Revolution

the advent of armed combat, they picked up the pace yet again. Artisans and laborers made tools and weapons. Women, freemen who stayed at home, and slaves grew food and furnished necessities not only for themselves and their usual markets, but for tens of thousands of soldiers who had ceased to contribute productive labor.¹⁷

Without these people, their work, their contributions, the American Revolution would have been a lost cause from the beginning.

References

¹See Brogan, Hugh. The Penguin History of the USA, 2nd ed. (London: Penguin Books, 1999); Nash, Gary and Jeffrey, Julie Roy. The American People, Vol. 1, 2nd ed. (New York: Harper-Collins, 1990)

²Le Blanc, Paul. A Short History of the U.S. Working Class: From Colonial Times to the Twenty-First Century. (New York: Humanity Books, 1999)

³Murolo, Prascilla and Chitty, A.B. From the Folks Who Brought You the Weekend. (New York: New Press, 2001), p. 14

⁴Nash & Jeffrey, The American People, pp. 191, 193

⁵Murolo & Chitty, From the Folks Who Brought You the Weekend, p. 22

⁶Boorstin, Daniel J. The Americans: The Colonial Experience. (New York: Vintage, 1958), p. 193

⁷Morolo & Chitty, From the Folks Who Brought You the Weekend.

⁸Nash & Jeffrey, The American People, pp. 192-193

⁹Morolo & Chitty, From the Folks Who Brought You the Weekend; For more on the nature of slavery, see also Stampp, Kenneth M. The Peculiar Institution. (New York: Vintage Books, 1999) and Zinn, Howard. A People's History of the United States. (New York: HarperCollins, 1999)

¹⁰Raphael, Ray. A People's History of the American Revolution. (New York: The New Press, 2001), p. 250

¹¹Morolo & Chitty, From the Folks Who Brought You the Weekend

¹²Raphael, A People's History of the American Revolution, p. 254

¹³Ibid., p. 256

¹⁴Zinn, Howard. A People's History of the United States, p. 111

¹⁵See Foner, Eric. The Story of American Freedom. (New York: W.W. Norton, 1998)

¹⁶Raphael, Ray. A People's History of the American Revolution, pp. 107-120, 143

¹⁷Ibid., p. 302

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