About this title: Friends of Liberty tells the remarkable story of three men whose lives were braided together by issues of liberty and race that fueled revolutions across two continents. Thomas Jefferson wrote the founding documents of the United States. Thaddeus Kosciuszko was a hero of the American Revolution and later led a spectacular but failed uprising in Poland, his homeland. Agrippa Hull, a freeborn black New Englander, volunteered at eighteen to join the Continental Army. During the Revolution, Hull served Kosciuszko as an orderly, and the two became fast friends. Kosciuszkos abhorrence of ...
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Basic Books
Date Published: 2008-03-24
ISBN-13:9780465048144ISBN:0465048145
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Basic Books
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780465048144ISBN:0465048145
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Edition: 1st Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Basic Bks, NY
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780465048144ISBN:0465048145
Description: As New in Near Fine Unclipped jacket. Signed by Author A bright, tight edition signed by author (Nash) on early title page. DJ is uncut; clean & colorful; light wrinkling at foot of spine. Text is unmarked; well-bound w/ light bump to spine end. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Basic Books, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780465048144ISBN:0465048145
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"An interesting attempt to interweave the lives and attitudes of Thomas Jefferson, Polish Revolutionary war hero Tadeusz Kociussko, and Agrippa Hull, his African American orderly during the way. It's ultimately an examination of slavery, and the tension between the quest for liberty and the reality of race-based bondage."
"(I copyedited this book.) A well-written historical account of three lives that influenced and were influenced by the Revolutionary War and the course of slavery in the United States. Fascinating stories you didn't hear in high school U.S. history classes. The portrait of Thomas Jefferson is particularly fascinating. His bizarre internal contradictions of deeply held racist beliefs and equally deeply held beliefs in freedom and equality are carefully brought to light and examined in the context of his friendship with a Polish man who helped the U.S. side in the war and who believed in the equality of black people with whites. Kosciuszko strived for years to get his friend Jefferson to work to end slavery in the U.S., even leaving him money in his will to free Jefferson's slaves (which Jefferson basically never did, not even his own children)."
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