The Tory's Wife: A Woman and Her Family in Revolutionary America
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Finalist for the 2024 George Washington Prize
The Spurgin family of North Carolina experienced the cataclysm of the American Revolution in the most dramatic ways--and from different sides. This engrossing book tells the story of Jane Welborn Spurgin, a patriot who welcomed General Nathanael Greene to her home and aided Continental forces while her loyalist husband was fighting for the king as an officer in the Tory militia. By focusing on the wife of a middling backcountry farmer, esteemed historian Cynthia Kierner shows how the Revolution not only toppled long-established political hierarchies but also strained family ties and drew women into the public sphere to claim both citizenship and rights--as Jane Spurgin did with a dramatic series of petitions to the North Carolina state legislature when she fought to reclaim her family's lost property after the war was over.While providing readers with stories of battles, horse-stealing, bigamy, and exile that bring the Revolutionary era vividly to life, this book also serves as an invaluable examination of the potentially transformative effects of war and revolution, both personally and politically.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0813949912
ISBN13:9780813949918
Release Date:September 2023
Publisher:University of Virginia Press
Length:224 Pages
Weight:0.80 lbs.
Dimensions:1.0" x 5.9" x 9.1"
Age Range:18 years and up
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