Marginalized Groups In The Revolutionary War

Marginalized groups were a major factor in the revolutionary war for both sides. Some of the marginalized groups left the war in a better position because of the side that they chose. Women were affected in multiple ways; most women felt sorrow from losing loved ones in the conflict, but women stepped up and played the role of the male figure, who was away and fighting during the war. As women assumed the male position they also joined large-scale protest against British rule in some occupied cities, and pressured store owners through riots to lower prices inflated by the war effort in some other towns. Many women participated more directly in the conflict as camp followers ( a very common element of eighteenth century warfare) and a handful