Sometimes a war's greatest heroes are its survivors, those who
manage to forge new lives despite the tragedy they have
experienced. History books usually 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. Children
like these found themselves on the edge of the fray-both in combat
and in the throes of daily life-helping, or simply enduring, as
best their interrupted youths allowed. Their behind-the-scenes
stories illustrate what it was really like for children during the
Revolutionary War.
Meet Frances Slocum, a five-year-old girl captured and raised by
Native Americans; James Fortune, a free African American who at the
age of fifteen enlisted on a government-commissioned ship; and
Deborah Samson, who, at twenty, dressed in men's clothes and joined
the Continental army.
Learn the inspiring stories of American children who displayed
courage, devotion, and wisdom during the colonies' fight for
freedom.
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