Mercy Otis Warren

1728 - 1814

Titles on this disk:

• author: History of the Rise, Progress, and Termination of the American Revolution vol. 1
• author: History of the Rise, Progress, and Termination of the American Revolution vol. 2

Quotation:

• (16 March, 2009) Mercy Otis Warren asks why people are so willing to obey the government and answers that it is supineness, fear of resisting, and the long habit of obedience (1805)

About this person:

Mercy Otis Warren was one of the most formidable female intellectuals in 18th century America. She wrote plays, poetry, letters, a pamphlet warning of the dangers of the new Constitution, and one of the most important contemporary histories of the American Revolution. In her history we see the continual struggle between liberty, virtue, and reason on the one hand, against the blind pursuit of power, luxury, and passion on the other.