Contributor
Young, Alfred F., 1925-2012.
Edition Statement:1st ed.
Imprint:New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2011.
Description452 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Note:"To begin the world over again" / Alfred F. Young, Ray Raphael, and Gary B. Nash -- Part I. Revolutions. -- Ebenezer Mackintosh: Boston's Captain General of the Liberty Tree / Alfred F. Young -- Blacksmith Timothy Bigelow and the Massachusetts revolution of 1774 / Ray Raphael -- Samuel Thompson's war: the career of an American insurgent / T.H. Breen -- Philadelphia's radical caucus that propelled Pennsylvania to independence and democracy / Gary B. Nash -- A world of Paine / Jill Lepore -- Phillis Wheatley: the poet who challenged the American revolutionaries / David Waldstreicher -- Part II. Wars. -- "Adventures, dangers and sufferings": the betrayals of Private Joseph Plumb Martin, Continental soldier / Philip Mead -- "The spirit of levelling": James Cleveland, Edward Wright, and the militiamen's struggle for equality in revolutionary Virginia / Michael A. McDonnell -- Mary Perth, Harry Washington, and Moses Wilkinson: Black Methodists who escaped from slavery and founded a nation / Cassandra Pybus -- James Ireland, John Leland, John "Swearing Jack" Waller, and the Baptist campaign for religious freedom in revolutionary Virginia / Jon Butler -- Declaring independence and rebuilding a nation: dragging canoe and the Chickamauga revolution / Colin G. Galloway -- Forgotten heroes of the Revolution: Han Yerry and Tyona Doxtader of the Oneida Indian Nation / James Kirby Martin -- Part III. The promise of the Revolution. -- "Satan, Smith, Shattuck, and Shays": the people's leaders in the Massachusetts regulation of 1786 / Gregory Nobles -- William Findley, David Bradford, and the Pennsylvania regulation of 1794 / Terry Bouton -- The new Jerusalem: Herman Husband's egalitarian alternative to the United States Constitution / Wythe Holt -- The battle against patriarchy that Abigail Adams won / Woody Holton -- America's Mary Wollstonecraft: Judith Sargent Murray's case for the equal rights of women / Sheila Skemp -- Prince Hall, Richard Allen, and Daniel Coker: revolutionary Black founders, revolutionary Black
Note:communities / Richard S. Newman -- Richard and Judith Randolph, St. George Tucker, George Wythe, Syphax Brown, and Hercules White: racial equality and the snares of prejudice / Melvin Patrick Ely -- "Every man should have property": Robert Coram and the American Revolution's legacy of economic populism / Seth Cotlar -- Thomas Greenleaf: printers and the struggle for democratic politics and freedom of the press / Jeffrey L. Pasley -- The plough-jogger: Jedediah Peck and the democratic revolution / Alan Taylor -- Afterword / Eric Foner
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. 399-427) and index.
