History 103 *** AMERICAN HISTORY TO 1877 *** Oct. 14, 1996

WHOSE INDEPENDENCE?
THE REVOLUTIONARY EXPERIENCE OF INDIANS, BLACKS, AND WHITE WOMEN

I. Native Americans

• Background: end of "play-off system" and erosion of "middle ground"
• Choosing sides in the Revolution
• Losing land in the peace
  • Treaty of Fort Stanwix (1784)
  • Treaty of Hopewell (1785)
• Renewed warfare
  • Harmar's Humiliation (1790)
  • St. Clair's Shame (1791)
  • Battle of Fallen Timbers (1794)
• Treaty of Greenville (1795)

II. African Americans

• Patriot paradox re: slavery
• Lord Dunmore's Proclamation (1775)
• Black resistance in the South
• Blacks in British military service
• Blacks in American military service
• Gradual emancipation in the North
• Increased manumission in the Upper South
• Limits of emancipation
• Slavery as the South's "peculiar institution"

III. White Women

• Exchange between John and Abigail Adams
• Legal status of married women, single women
• Voting rights in New Jersey
• Republican Wifehood, Republican Motherhood