Buck Wild: Remembering the Ladies (FINALLY!) | Revolutionary Women of America

“Remember the ladies.”That was Abigail Adams writing to her husband John in 1776,gently suggesting that maybe creating a brand-new republic while treating women like politically decorative livestock wasn’t the strongest governing philosophy long term.John Adams, naturally, thought this was hilarious.And then America spent the next 250 years proving Abigail absolutely correct.In this episode of The Buck Starts Here, Kyle is joined by Rae to dive into the women of the American Revolution: the spies, fighters, writers, organizers, smugglers, business owners, and complete chaos goblins who helped keep the colonies functioning while the men were off inventing the phrase “we’ll deal with that later.”We cover:• Sybil Ludington’s 40-mile midnight ride• Deborah Sampson disguising herself as a man to fight in the Continental Army• Nancy Hart holding Loyalists hostage in her own house because apparently frontier Georgia produced action movie protagonists• Women running farms, businesses, and supply chains during the war• Female spy networks the British kept accidentally briefing because they fundamentally underestimated women• The Betsy Ross myth• Republican motherhood• And the deeply inconvenient reality that many Founding Fathers depended heavily on highly educated wives they still refused to treat as political equals.We also get into correspondence culture, women disappearing from the historical record after the war, and why so much of this history survives only because somebody saved a box of letters instead of throwing it in a fireplace.Because the American Revolution was never just a bunch of guys in wigs arguing about taxes.Somebody still had to:make the clothesrun the farmssmuggle the intelligencemanufacture the ammunitionand occasionally blow up their own house before the British could seize the gunpowderYou know.Founding stuff.Music: Military March Drums by KimyF. from Pixabay