Pride and Pleasure: The Schuyler Sisters in an Age of Revolution Aliaa Betawi a few miles from Manhattan

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Pride and Pleasure: The Schuyler Sisters in an Age of Revolution Aliaa Betawi a few miles from ManhattanAmericas Founding Era reconsidered through the lives of two women as formidable as, and in some respects stronger than, the men they loved, married, and mothered. Angelica and Elizabeth Schuyler, born to wealth and privilege in New Yorks Hudson Valley during the latter half of the eighteenth century, were raised to make good marriages and supervise substantial households. Instead they became embroiled in the turmoil of America's insurrection against