Espionage and enslavement in the Revolution: the true story of Robert Townsend and Elizabeth

Foreword by Vanessa Williams

Introduction

The times that try men's souls. Merchants and masters ; Congressman and commissary ; Oyster bay occupied ; "No probability of your getting her again" ; Spies and traitors

In the course of human events. "A child with her then master" ; "Ensnared into bondage" ; "A townsman with a cudgel" ; "Derangement and separation" ; "Principled against selling slaves" ; Obtain the wench from him"

For ourselves and our posterity. "Elizabeth, a black woman" ; Uncle Robert and "free Elizabeth"

Epilogue : "the journey's end."