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Before selecting my two themes, I picked out the most important and the most interesting parts in the chapter, The Intimately Oppressed, and used them as my two themes for the paper. The two themes I picked out I feel had a major significance in the American history of the “women” and I feel is vital to the learning process of today’s students. One of the two themes I have chosen is how the women were treated before, during, and after the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812, and what the women’s role was as a “person”. As Zinn talks about how women were thrust back more and more from the public life, he brings up Julia Spruill, adviser on Indian Affairs for the governor of Georgia, James Oglethorpe, she reports, “the necessities of war brought women out into public affairs. Women formed patriotic groups, carried out anti-British actions, and wrote articles for independence. They were active in the campaign against the British tea tax”. Spruill also added, “They organized Daughters of Liberty groups, boycotting British goods, urged women to make their own cloths and buy only American-made things.” Its obvious that women wanted as much freedom from the British as the men did, I mean, hell, the women organiz