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Answering the Cry for Freedom: Stories of African Americans and the American Revolution

Answering the Cry for Freedom: Stories of African Americans and the American Revolution

Reviewed by: Krisitn Taylor - Biddeford High School, Biddeford, Southern Maine Library District

Review Date: January 8, 2017

Review

Gretchen Woelfle has written an approachable and detailed narrative that is easy to follow on the lives of thirteen-little known African Americans that were inspired by the colonies freedom from England -- so much that they too, worked to gain the same freedoms from their captors in the New World. Silhouettes provided by R. Gregory Christie compliment the text and enhance the lives of the people discussed.

Well researched with table of contents, source notes, author notes and timelines of each of the people with profiles that look at their family history, personal lives and their fight for freedom. For classroom use -- biographies of African Americans, American Revolution, Black Loyalists and Freetown in Sierra Leone where many of the Black Loyalists fled after leaving Nova Scotia.

Recommended for grades 4 -9

Overall Book Score: excellent