A Dangerous Set of People
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Cumberland County Historical Society N Pitt Street, Carlisle, Pennsylvania 17013
"Dangerous Set of People": British Captives and the Sundering of Empire during America's War for Independence - Presented by Ken Mill, Associate Professor of History & Director of the American Studies Program at Washington College in Chestertown, Maryland. Ken Miller explores Pennsylvanians' earliest interactions with their first British prisoners during the War for Independence. Miller shows how their contentious dealings with the captives hastened Americans' estrangement from Britain and fostered an emerging revolutionary identity.
Price: Free