This transitional book provides highlights of the life of Deborah Sampson, an historical figure who posed as a male in order to enable her to enlist in the Continental Army during America's Revolutionary War during 1781 & 1782. Born in 1760 to a family which couldn't afford to keep her, she was sold into indentured servitude at the age of 10. After completing her obligations, she masqueraded as a man, but was eventually found out when she passed out from the fever in the second of her 3 year stint in the army. She then went on to marry a farmer and eventually went on a lecture circuit about her experience and express her anti-war sentiments, the first woman to lecture professionally from 1801 to 1803. She died in 1827 in Sharon, Massachusetts.
She was in Philadelphia during one of the Yellow Fever epidemics as well.
Merit: Good transitional material for a beginning reader due to wide margins and large typeface. Interesting factual story told in an interesting fashion with 2-color illustrations.
Share: Read aloud or beginning reader.
Appeal: Of interest to girls as informative about female life in colonial America.
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