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The Free Man

Henry Free, they called him now, or Frey in the dialect; and they knew him well in all the Pennsylvania land his own Palatine fellow countrymen had settled. They had even sent him to represent them in the Congress at Washington. Captain Free, they said, when they thought how he had fought for the freedom of the colonies a year before the Declaration of Independence. But few of them remembered that he had been Henner Dellicker in the old country, where he was born beside the Neckar; or the tale of his voyage to the new land in the crowded and starved emigrant ship; or of his indentured service in the rich Bayley house in Philadelphia; or of the curel discipline that Miss Amity visited upon him; or how he fled the King's jailers to the wild frontier, and returned later to settle his accounts with Miss Amity in a way he had not expected. In this novel, the author of The TreesThe Free Man is freshly revealing of an important but unfamiliar aspect of our growth to nationhood and the part played in it by the founding fathers of the Pennsylvania Dutch, their "little Declaration of Independence "as early as April and May 1775, and their introduction and development of that great American influence, the pioneer rifle.

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  • "The revolutionary patriot known as Henry Free had come to America as the boy Henner Dellicker -- and his new life was as different as his name and the childhood he left behind in Germany. He had traveled to colonial Philadelphia in a ship crowded with starving emigrants, only to discover that it was indentured servitude, not freedom, to which he sailed. Conrad Richter's 1943 novel, now restored to print, tells the rousing story of Free's journey, of his time in service, and of his struggle for freedom -- his own, and that of the young nation of which he becomes a part."
  • "Henry Free, they called him now, or Frey in the dialect; and they knew him well in all the Pennsylvania land his own Palatine fellow countrymen had settled. They had even sent him to represent them in the Congress at Washington. Captain Free, they said, when they thought how he had fought for the freedom of the colonies a year before the Declaration of Independence. But few of them remembered that he had been Henner Dellicker in the old country, where he was born beside the Neckar; or the tale of his voyage to the new land in the crowded and starved emigrant ship; or of his indentured service in the rich Bayley house in Philadelphia; or of the curel discipline that Miss Amity visited upon him; or how he fled the King's jailers to the wild frontier, and returned later to settle his accounts with Miss Amity in a way he had not expected. In this novel, the author of The TreesThe Free Man is freshly revealing of an important but unfamiliar aspect of our growth to nationhood and the part played in it by the founding fathers of the Pennsylvania Dutch, their "little Declaration of Independence "as early as April and May 1775, and their introduction and development of that great American influence, the pioneer rifle."@en
  • "Young emigrant from the Palatinate seeks political freedom among colonial Pennsylvania Dutch."

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  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "War stories"
  • "Tekstuitgave"
  • "History"@en
  • "History"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Historical fiction"@en
  • "Historical fiction"

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  • "Un hombre libre"@es
  • "Un hombre libre"
  • "The Free man"@pl
  • "The Free man"
  • "The Free Man"
  • "The Free Man"@en
  • "Free Man"@en
  • "The free man"@en
  • "The free man"
  • "Mukta pathera yatrī"
  • "Sawatantūtā saṅgarāma"

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