Mary Beth Norton's Liberty's Daughters- The Revolutionary Experience of American Women, 1750-1800 explores the lives of colonial women before and after the Revolutionary War. Throughout the book, Norton disputes the erroneous claim that American women held a higher social status and were seen as relatively equal as men before the Revolutionary War. In addition, Liberty's Daughters- The Revolutionary Experience of American Women, 1750-1800 examines the fact that it was the private sphere of the American colonial women's lives that were changed by the Revolutionary War. According to many historians, the time period right before the Revolutionary War was seen as the "golden age of equality" (Norton, xiv). In a little less than 300 pages, Norton accomplishes her goal of proving that…show more content… On top of personal accountants, she uses several objective pieces of research such as historical surveys. The two different types of evidence strengthen the merit of Norton's work. Personal papers and diaries, while may be subjective, offer a unique and interesting addition to the perspective of what American women experience from 1750 to 1800. The objective evidence such as the table on educational backgrounds from the 17th century to 1809 (Norton, 289), compliments the personal accounts of Elizabeth Bancroft, who is one of the women Norton quotes throughout her book (Norton, 291). While it is tough to make generalizations based on personal accounts, the number of those accounts is important to note and can give readers reason to make some generalizations about the women during this time. At the end of the book, there are numerous pages of the sources she consulted in her writing, Liberty's Daughters- The Revolutionary Experience of American Women, 1750-1800. It is commendable that Norton spent the time and energy to obtain and analyze the enormous amount of research she
