253 Susan Clair Imbarrato, Life and Revolution in Boston and Grenada

Ben Franklin's World

English - August 27, 2019 05:00 - 45 minutes - 41.6 MB - ★★★★★ - 988 ratings
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What can a family history tell us about revolutionary and early republic America?

What can the letters of a wife and mother tell us about life in the Caribbean during the Age of Revolutions?

These are questions Susan Clair Imbarrato, a Professor of English at Minnesota State University Moorhead, set out to answer as she explored an amazing trove of letters to and from a woman named Sarah Gray Cary.  

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