Friends of liberty : Thomas Jefferson, Tadeusz Kosciuszko, and Agrippa Hull : a tale of three patriots, two revolutions, and a tragic betrayal of freedom in the new nation

Friends of liberty : Thomas Jefferson, Tadeusz Kosciuszko, and Agrippa Hull : a tale of three patriots, two revolutions, and a tragic betrayal of freedom in the new nation

New York Basic Books, c2008

vii, 328 p. : ill., ports. ; 25 cm

973.3 N237 2008

(OCoLC)181368707

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--From publisher description

Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-312) and index
L2008M69

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