The American Revolution can feel like a legacy that belongs to a select few. It has often been told as the story of wealthy white men—many of them enslavers, many of them beneficiaries of Indigenous dispossession—who rebelled in the name of liberty while deny…
Woman Reading in front of a Fireplace, 1735, by Pierre Parrocel. (Heritage Art / Heritage Images via Getty Images)
This essay is part of the FEMINIST 250: Founding Feminists series, marking the 250t… [+10676 chars]
