Liz Covart

https://traffic.libsyn.com/benfranklinsworld/442_Everyday_Military_Life.mp3 When we picture the War for American Independence, we picture battles. But for the men and women who actually lived and fought in it, the American Revolution was also a job with mess rotations, night watches, short rations, and children underfoot. Historians Eugene Procknow, Gabriel Neville, and Thomas Sobol pull back the curtain on everyday military life during the War for Independence.

https://traffic.libsyn.com/benfranklinsworld/441_OMalley.mp3 What does it mean to escape? For David George, who was born enslaved in Virginia in the 1740s, the answer was never simple. He escaped his enslaver's plantation, only to be captured by the Muscogee Creek. He escaped the Creek, only to find himself enslaved again at a South Carolina plantation. He built a life of faith and family there, only to escape once more to the British lines during the Revolution.

https://traffic.libsyn.com/benfranklinsworld/440_Newman.mp3 Thomas Jefferson wrote 28 grievances against King George III into the Declaration of Independence. Congress adopted 27.