| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 96.1

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Book Review

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. By Gary B. Nash and Graham Russell Gao Hodges. (New York: Basic, 2008. viii, 328 pp. $26.00, ISBN 978-0-465-04814-4.)
Gary B. Nash and Graham Russell Gao Hodges have used three intertwined biographies to craft a story of the American Revolution and its confrontation with slavery. Agrippa Hull was a free African American born in Massachusetts; Tadeusz Kosciuszko, the second son of a Polish petty noble family; and Thomas Jefferson—well, he needs no introduction.	1
All three participated in the Revolution: Kosciuszko as a brilliant military engineer; Hull as his orderly; and Jefferson as the author of the Declaration of Independence and governor of Virginia. After the war Hull returned to Stockbridge, Massachusetts, where he worked for a local elite family and patiently built a stable and successful life. Kosciuszko returned to Europe, where he led the failed Polish independence movement of 1794. An international hero, but gravely wounded, Kosciuszko was imprisoned in Russia until a new czar, Paul I, released him in 1796. He arrived in Philadelphia in 1797, where he lived for a year, became close friends with Jefferson, and claimed his revolutionary back pay.	. . .

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