Document: "The Edenton Ladies' Tea Party"
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"The Edenton Ladies' Tea Party"
Available online at the "Liberty Rhetoric and Nineteenth Century Women" (Prof. Catherine Lavender, College of Staten Island, CUNY)
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This document relates to women’s organized efforts to support the Revolution, particularly their participation in the movement to boycott English goods. This document is a British cartoon, lampooning such efforts. It seeks to demean the Revolutionary movement as a whole by satirising the new political roles that women had begun to embrace.
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