Adult Lecture Series: Laying their Hands to the Spindle: Women’s Spinning Protests, 1768-1770
Women, Spinning, and Resistance: Stacey Fraser In the years leading up to the American Revolution, New England women played an important role in resisting British policies through their everyday lives and work. On August 31, 1769, forty-five women in Lexington, Massachusetts, gathered for a spinning protest—one of more than sixty such demonstrations held throughout New...
