Liberty's Children: Stories of Eleven Revolutionary War Children

When Americans think about the American Revolution, certain names come quickly to mind--George Washington, Paul Revere, and Samuel Adams. These men deserve to be remembered, yet their stories do not give us a clear picture of what life was like for the average person during the years before, during, and immediately after the war. Typical history books do not describe how a nine-year-old Massachusetts boy might have felt when his friend was killed in the Boston Massacre or what went through the mind of a teenage Quaker girl when her family fled Philadelphia. These are the kinds of stories you will find in this book. Many of these children not only survived the war but played an active role in it.

Author: Scotti Cohn
Publisher: Globe Pequot Press
Published: 08/01/2004
Pages: 136
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.51lbs
Size: 8.96h x 6.12w x 0.45d
ISBN: 9780762727346

Review Citation(s):
Kliatt 01/01/2005 pg. 33

About the Author
Scotti McAuliff Cohn is a freelance writer and copy editor living and working in Bloomington, Illinois. She has written three other books for The Globe Pequot Press: More than Petticoats: Remarkable North Carolina Women, It Happened in North Carolina, and Beyond Their Years: Stories of Sixteen Civil War Children.