Mercy Otis Warren holding ink well and quill

Figure from the Museum of Ventura County collection.

Brilliant satirist and propagandist. On British list to be hanged.

Mercy Otis Warren was known as the Conscience of the American Revolution. A lifelong revolutionary, she was the first woman to champion an anti-Federalist viewpoint. Warren used her talents as a writer to promote he Revolutionary cause with antii-British and anti-loyalist .

Warren's writings earned her third position of Brittian's list of rebels to be hanged. Her three-volume history of the Revolution was the first by an American author.

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