Revolutionary founders : rebels, radicals, and reformers in the making of the nation /
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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| Imprint: | New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2011. |
| Description: | 452 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8389922 |
Table of Contents:
- List of Illustrations
- Introduction ôTo Begin the World Over Againö
- Part I. Revolutions
- 1. Ebenezer Mackintosh: Boston's Captain General of the Liberty Tree
- 2. Blacksmith Timothy Bigelow and the Massachusetts Revolution of 1774
- 3. Samuel Thompson's War: The Career of an American Insurgent
- 4. Philadelphia's Radical Caucus That Propelled Pennsylvania to Independence and Democracy
- 5. A World of Paine
- 6. Phillis Wheatley: The Poet Who Challenged the American Revolutionaries
- Part II. Wars
- 7. ôAdventures, Dangers and Sufferingsö: The Betrayals of Private Joseph Plumb Martin, Continental Soldier
- 8. ôThe Spirit of Levellingö: James Cleveland, Edward Wright, and the Militiamen's Struggle for Equality in Revolutionary Virginia
- 9. Mary Perth, Harry Washington, and Moses Wilkinson: Black Methodists Who Escaped from Slavery and Founded a Nation
- 10. James Ireland, John Leland, John ôSwearing Jackö Waller, and the Baptist Campaign for Religious Freedom in Revolutionary Virginia
- 11. Declaring Independence and Rebuilding a Nation: Dragging Canoe and the Chickamauga Revolution
- 12. Forgotten Heroes of the Revolution: Han Yerry and Tyona Doxtader of the Oneida Indian Nation
- Part III. The Promise of the Revolution
- 13. ôSatan, Smith, Shattuck, and Shaysö: The People's Leaders in the Massachusetts Regulation of 1786
- 14. William Findley, David Bradford, and the Pennsylvania Regulation of 1794
- 15. The New Jerusalem: Herman Husband's Egalitarian Alternative to the United States Constitution
- 16. Battle Against Patriarchy That Abigail Adams Won
- 17. America's Mary Wollstonecraft: Judith Sargent Murray's Case for the Equal Rights of Women
- 18. Prince Hall, Richard Allen, and Daniel Coker: Revolutionary Black Founders, Revolutionary Black Communities
- 19. Richard and Judith Randolph, St. George Tucker, George Wythe, Syphax Brown, and Hercules White: Racial Equality and the Snares of Prejudice
- 20. ôEvery Man Should Have Propertyö: Robert Coram and the American Revolution's Legacy of Economic Populism
- 21. Thomas Greenleaf: Printers and the Struggle for Democratic Politics and Freedom of the Press
- 22. The Plough-Jogger: Jedediah Peck and the Democratic Revolution
- Afterword
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- List of Contributors
- Index