Human Tradition in the American Revolution

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.

• Chapter 1 Introduction: The Revolutionary PlayersChapter 2 Anthony Benezet: America's Finest Eighteenth-Century Antislavery AdvocateChapter 3 Lachlan McGillivray: Indian Trader on the Southern Colonial FrontierChapter 4 Eliza Lucas Pinckney: Vegetables and VirtueChapter 5 William Smith: Philadelphia Minister and ModerateChapter 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 NeutralChapter 8 Dragging Canoe (Tsi'yu-g°nsi'ni): Chickamauga Cherokee PatriotChapter 9 Daniel Boone and the Struggle for Independence on the Revolutionary FrontierChapter 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 RevolutionaryChapter 13 Simon Girty: His War on the FrontierChapter 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 WomenChapter 17 Phillis Wheatley: Speaking Liberty to the 'Modern Egyptians'Chapter 18 Benjamin Gilbert and Jacob Nagle: Soldiers of the American RevolutionChapter 19 Index

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.