Espionage and Enslavement in the Revolution - The True Story of Robert Townsend and Elizabeth

In 1785, an African American woman, Elizabeth, was sold to her fifth enslaver. She had no idea that Robert Townsend, a son of her first enslaver, would locate her and safeguard her child--nor that Robert, one of America's first spies, had joined an anti-slavery movement. The paperback has a new chapter on recent discoveries about her life.

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By Claire Bellerjeau and Tiffany Yecke Brooks

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• Authors: Claire Bellerjeau, Claire Yecke Brooks Bellerjeau, Tiffany Yecke Brooks
• Publisher: Taylor
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2021
• EAN: 9781493052479
• ISBN: 978-1-4930-5247-9
• No. of pages: 232
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; USA, Turn, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, History, George Washington, Spy, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / United States / Revolutionary Period (1775-1800), United States, Oyster Bay, Social and cultural history, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, US History, C 1700 To C 1800, HISTORY / African American & Black, c 1765 to 1783 (American Revolutionary period), c 1783 to c 1800 (American Federalist era), spies, Relating to African American / Black American people, African American History, Revolutionary War, boston massacre, franklin paris negotitaion, Robert Townsend, culper spy ring, sons of liberty, greatest spy stories, benedict arnold, culpepper, battle of long island, spy ring