Forgotten Founders' Black Patriots, Women Soldiers, and Other Heroes Who Shaped America's Founding by Mifflin Lowe, is an inspiring book filled with stories about the heroic women, African Americans, Native Americans, immigrants, and others who helped to win the American Revolution and launch a new nation. Readers will meet Sybil Ludington, the 16 year-old girl who rode all night to warn of a British attack; Phyllis Wheatley, the gifted Black poet whose work was praised by Voltaire and George Washington,; Deborah Sampson, the colonial woman who dressed as a man to enlist in the Continental Army; Peter Salem, the freed slave who became the hero of the Battle of Bunker Hill; and many more! Hardcover, 64 pages. Ages 7 to 11 years old.
