This involvement was crucial to the men because without it many more lives would have been lost. In Document 6.6, Deborah Champion, the daughter of an honored officer, traveled for hours after dark to reach Boston from Connecticut to deliver her father’s important message. Because their slave, Aristarchus, was sent with Deborah, her father did not believe it would be much danger for them on their trip. Deborah and Aristarchus were stopped and questioned by British troops, but somehow managed to convince them to let them pass. “There are reasons why it is better for you a woman to take the despatches I would send than for me to entrust them to a man; else I should send your brother Henry. Dare you go?...”, Deborah’s father states. This portrays only one example of a patriot woman’s participation in the war. The father knew it would be easier for a woman to take on this trek rather a man due to women not having as much power and