Early Histories of the Revolution (1789-1810)
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Two of the oldest and most influential histories of the American Revolution.
The History of the American Revolution, 1789
By David Ramsay
History of the Rise, Progress and Termination of the American Revolution, 1805
By Mercy Otis Warren
Two of the earliest published memoirs of soldiers who fought in the Revolutionary War.
King was an enslaved African American who gained his freedom by enlisting in the British army. He later lived in Nova Scotia and Sierra Leone.
Moultrie was an officer in the American army. After the war, he served as Lieutenant Governor and then Governor of South Carolina.
Memoirs of the Life of Boston King, a Black Preacher, 1798
Written by himself, during his residence at Kingwood School, from The Methodist Magazine