Post #2- British Thought on American Women

     During the period leading up to the Revolutionary War the British despised the Patriots activism. The political cartoon, “Society of Patriotic Women at Edenton, North Carolina,” is a perfect example of literature and artwork, such as cartoons, being completely biased. The British crown passed different acts of taxes, such as the Coercive Acts, to have Americans pay for their debt. Americans resisted as much as possible, especially women, by rioting and turning away from their own roles in society, and participating in politics. This cartoon shows American Women and how they are portrayed in politics.

  Women during the Revolutionary Era took on basic household duties carrying on a supporting role while her husband was head of the household. “ Women fed the family, made clothing and household essentials, cleaned house and clothing, cared for and supervised the children, and served as nurse or midwife. For women, “life was labor intensive,” (Nelson-Burns, 1). The cartoon portrays the lives of women who were very active in politics, while their old roles diminished. In the cartoon American women are having a meeting and apparently are being very promiscuous and bad. In the middle of the picture, there is a women being groped by an unknown man, showing that the women were very pretentious and easy. There is also a child sitting on the ground under the table eating off the floor. A dog is also present and is licking the child’s face, while urinating on a flask of booze. The cartoon also shows an African American at the meeting, which was a very bad thing in that era. The women are all drinking out of flasks or bowls and a large portion of the work shows a woman’s backside.

     The cartoon’s underlying meaning is that if women engage in politics then they will forget their roles as women. The artist is very biased and he/she obviously drew this cartoon in order to show that women cannot handle a “man’s job.” The British would definitely side with the artist of this cartoon because they believed that manual household labor was all women were good for.

  This cartoon is very biased, just like every other political cartoon. This one specifically was made to show the British that they do not need to worry of the thirteen colonies. It is being run by the women, and they thought this as a joke. Well as history shows us, the British should have taken this more seriously because it backfired. It enraged Americans when it eased the British, which proved fatal to the British reign of the thirteen colonies.

                                                               

                                                          works cited:

Nelson-Burns, Leslie.  "The Contemplator's Short History of Women in the Revolutionary Era."

     http://www.contemplator.com/history/revwomen.html

Image 1 memory.loc.gov/ammem/ awhhtml/aw05e/aw05e.html             

Image 2 www.oldgloryprints.com/ Flagmaker.htm

Group Report

During our first in class group meeting on Friday, we quickly assigned the jobs to each group member. Colleen and Ben were to work on the first draft, Sean on proofreading and the group activity log, John with image researching, and Holly for link researching. We also made sure everyone had each other’s contact information, since we were going to be relaying information back and forth. After making sure everyone knew their task, we agreed on a mutual meeting time the following Monday ten minutes before class. This meeting served as a reminder to everyone of his or her appointed tasks and to make sure we were all on track. After the brief meeting on Monday, the group kept in contact to make sure everyone got their work into the final post.

Comments

[Asma Z./Group 9]

I think that you have a very strong argument. I liked how to you started out with a sentence that gave the reader some history about your topic and then you gradulally moved up to your thesis statement. however, about your thesis statement, the last sentence that wasn't bold i think needs to be bold along with the other sentence before that. secondly your second paragraph sounds alot like you are just listing. Try to break it down and explain every bit with a sentence or two. lastly, your last paragraph is very strong but the last couple of sentences, i don't know whether they go greatly with your post. i kind of got lost in the last sentence, it doesn' seem like it is the of the same topic. overall, you post was very strong and argumentative and you provided great examples.