Document: Woodcut from "A New Touch on the Times," 1779
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Woodcut from "A New Touch on the Times," 1779
Available online at the "Liberty Rhetoric and Nineteenth Century Women" (Prof. Catherine Lavender, College of Staten Island, CUNY)
Comments:
The first popular Revolutionary woodcut of a woman carrying a musket, which raises questions about women’s participation as armed combatants.
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