The Human Tradition in the American Revolution,9780842027489

The Human Tradition in the American Revolution

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ISBN13: 9780842027489
ISBN10: 0842027483
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2000-01-01
Publisher(s): Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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Summary

The story of the American Revolution is a familiar tale. The history books abound with the heroics of Washington, Jefferson, and Samuel Adams as they endeavored to free America from British rule. However, beyond the luminaries who took center stage in the struggle for independence were the myriad people who made their own impact on the American Revolution.

The Human Tradition in the American Revolution, edited by Nancy L. Rhoden and Ian K. Steele, is a collection of brief biographies of 17 individuals who lived during the Revolutionary Period. American society during that time was diverse and divided: it included patriots, loyalists, Native Americans, slaves, free African-Americans, and mercenaries, to name a few.

Written by leading historians, including Gary Nash, John Shy, and Edward J. Cashin, these minibiographies reveal how various facets of American society were touched by the conflict and how individual people reacted to this epic event.

This volume introduces patriots such as Virginian Arthur Lee who, along with Benjamin Franklin and Silas Deane,

Author Biography

Nancy L. Rhoden, whose Ph.D. is from Princeton University, teaches early American and English history at the University of Southern Indiana Ian K. Steele, whose Ph.D. is from the University of London, teaches British Atlantic and American colonial history at the University of Western Ontario

Table of Contents

Introduction: The Revolutionary Playersp. xv
Anthony Benezet: America's Finest Eighteenth-Century Antislavery Advocatep. 1
Lachlan McGillvray: Indian Trader on the Southern Colonial Frontierp. 19
Eliza Lucas Pinckney: Vegetables and Virtuep. 39
William Smith: Philadelphia Minister and Moderatep. 61
William Prendergast and the Revolution in the Hudson River Valley: "Poor Men Were Always Oppressed by the Rich,"p. 81
Ashley Bowen of Marblehead: Revolutionary Neutralp. 99
Dragging Canoe (Tsi'yu-gunsi'ni): Chickamauga Cherokee Patriotp. 117
Daniel Boone and the Struggle for Independence on the Revolutionary Frontierp. 139
Philadelphia Quaker Elizabeth Drinker and Her Servant, Jane Boon: "Times Are Much Changed, and Maids Are Become Mistresses,"p. 159
Mary Brant (Konwatsi'tsiaienni Degonwadonti): "Miss Molly," Feminist Role Model or Mohawk Princess?p. 183
Arthur Lee of Virginia: The Forgotten Revolutionaryp. 203
Simon Girty: His War on the Frontierp. 221
Absalom Jones and the African Church of Philadelphia: "To Arise out of the Dust,"p. 241
Baroness Friederike von Riedesel: "Mrs. General,"p. 267
Judith Sargent Murray: The American Revolution and the Rights of Womenp. 285
Phillis Wheatley: Speaking Liberty to the "Modern Egyptians,"p. 307
Benjamin Gilbert and Jacob Nagle: Soldiers of the American Revolutionp. 329
Indexp. 351
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