Description: Husband offers a valuable lens through which we can view how labouring, industrious peopleshaped--and were shaped by--the American Revolution.
Review Quotes:
The world has waited long enough for a scholarly biography of Herman Husband, and Stewart fills the void wonderfully with this insightful and clearly written narrative. With his new archival discoveries, he is able to depict Husband as considerably more complex than the heroic figure of legend.
--Woody Holton, University of South Carolina, author of Abigail Adams