A superfluity of wealth, and a train of domestic slaves, naturally banish a sense of general liberty, and nourish the seeds of that kind of independence that usually terminates in aristocracy.

This was also the first history of the Revolution authored by a woman. Marriage
She married James Warren. The book contains eighteen political poems and two plays.

This was also the first history of the Revolution authored by a woman. In 1805 Mercy Otis Warren publiMercy Otis Warrend one of the earliest histories of the American war for independence a three-volume History of the Rise Progress and Termination of the American Revolution. During the years before the American Revolution Warren publiMercy Otis Warrend poems and plays that attacked royal authority in Massachusetts and urged colonists to resist British infringements on colonial rights and liberties.