Uppity Women of the New World
Meet: Jeanne Baret, who circumnavigated the globe on Bougainville's botany expedition disguised as a boy. Lydia Darragh, a Philadelphia seamstress who spied on British war councils and passed the information to American patriots sewn inside buttons on her son's coat. Mary Montagu, who brought smallpox vaccination to England. Biddy Mason, a slave who won her freedom in California, bought real estate in Los Angeles, built up a fortune, and founded the area's first black church. Mary Read and Anne Bonney...