The Human Tradition in the American Revolution

by Nancy L. Rhoden, Ian K. Steele, Stephen Aron, Edward J. Cashin, David Grimsted

Overview

This collection of 17 biographies provides a unique opportunity for the reader to go beyond the popular heroes of the American Revolution and discover the diverse populace that inhabited the colonies during this pivotal point in history.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781461714224
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	01/01/2000
Series:	The Human Tradition in America
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	NOOK Book
Pages:	368
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Nancy L. Rhoden teaches early American and English history at the University of Southern Indiana. Ian K. Steele teaches British Atlantic and American colonial history at the University of Western Ontario.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction: The Revolutionary Players
Chapter 2 Anthony Benezet: America's Finest Eighteenth-Century Antislavery Advocate
Chapter 3 Lachlan McGillivray: Indian Trader on the Southern Colonial Frontier
Chapter 4 Eliza Lucas Pinckney: Vegetables and Virtue
Chapter 5 William Smith: Philadelphia Minister and Moderate
Chapter 6 William Prendergast and the Revolution in the Hudson River Valley: 'Poor Men Were Always Oppressed by the Rich'
Chapter 7 Ashley Bowen of Marblehead: Revolutionary Neutral
Chapter 8 Dragging Canoe (Tsi'yu-g°nsi'ni): Chickamauga Cherokee Patriot
Chapter 9 Daniel Boone and the Struggle for Independence on the Revolutionary Frontier
Chapter 10 Philadelphia Quaker Elizabeth Drinker and Her Servant, Jane Boon: 'Times are Much Changed and Maids Are Become Mistresses'
Chapter 11 Mary Brant (Konwatsi'tsiaienni Degonwadonti): 'Miss Molly,' Feminist Role Model or Mohawk Princess?
Chapter 12 Arthur Lee of Virginia: The Forgotten Revolutionary
Chapter 13 Simon Girty: His War on the Frontier
Chapter 14 Absalom Jones and the African Church of Philadelphia: 'To Arise out of the Dust'
Chapter 15 Baroness Friederike von Riedesel: 'Mrs. General'
Chapter 16 Judith Sargent Murray: The American Revolution and the Rights of Women
Chapter 17 Phillis Wheatley: Speaking Liberty to the 'Modern Egyptians'
Chapter 18 Benjamin Gilbert and Jacob Nagle: Soldiers of the American Revolution
Chapter 19 Index

Editorial Reviews

In this wonderful collection of concise and imaginative essays, the editors convey the immense diversity of the American Revolution in a way that no conventional narrative ever could. Reading these essays is a real pleasure.--John M. Murrin, Princeton University

A fascinating potpourri of lives of Revolutionary era Americans, each different, each illuminating, all presenting a complex portrait of the lived experiences of late eighteenth-century Americans.--Jack N. Rakove, professor of history, Stanford University

It would take an American Hogarth to paint such a group of intriguing men and women from different classes, religions, races, and regions. But all of us can now explore and compare these diverse and well-documented lives, relating them to the more familiar faces and places of the Revolutionary era.--Peter H. Wood, author of Black Majority: Negroes in Colonial South Carolina from 1670 Through the Stono Rebellion

From the Publisher

It would take an American Hogarth to paint such a group of intriguing men and women from different classes, religions, races, and regions. But all of us can now explore and compare these diverse and well-documented lives, relating them to the more familiar faces and places of the Revolutionary era.

Peter H. Wood

The writing is uniformly excellent and the subjects well chosen—and only half the biographies are about white males. This collection should appeal to a wide audience. I will certainly use it in my American Revolution course.

Neil R. Stout

In this wonderful collection of concise and imaginative essays, the editors convey the immense diversity of the American Revolution in a way that no conventional narrative ever could. Reading these essays is a real pleasure.

John M. Murrin

A fascinating potpourri of lives of Revolutionary era Americans, each different, each illuminating, all presenting a complex portrait of the lived experiences of late eighteenth-century Americans.

Jack N. Rakove

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