Episode 74: An Independent Woman in Revolutionary America

The Way of Improvement Leads Home: American History, Religion, Politics, and Academic life. - Un pódcast de John Fea

In this episode we talk with historian Lorri Glover about Eliza Lucas Pinckney, a South Carolina woman who lived through the American Revolution in South Carolina. Pinckney's story sheds light on gender, agriculture, politics, and slavery in this era and unsettles many common assumptions regarding the place and power of women in the eighteenth century. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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