| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 90.3

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Book Review

Sealed with Blood: War, Sacrifice, and Memory in Revolutionary America. By Sarah J. Purcell. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002. 278 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-8122-3660-2.)
Historians of the twentieth century such as John Bodnar tell us that American public memory and commemorative activities stress the desirability of social order over social disorder, the status quo over dramatic change, and citizens' duties over citizens' rights. Episodes of citizens asserting their rights—with the striking exception of the colonists of 1776—almost never receive commemoration in modern America.	1
Sealed with Blood takes as its subject public memory of the war waged by those assertive colonists, from the beginnings of the war for independence through to the dying days of its surviving warriors: the end of the first quarter of the nineteenth century. Sarah J. Purcell investigates how public memory of the war for independence was deployed to the ends of duty, order, and national harmony but simultaneously how marginalized groups, such as African American veterans, also exploited public memory to claim new rights within the young United States. Most black veterans did receive their freedom at war's end.	. . .

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