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Friends of Liberty instructs the remarkable account of three men whose lives were braided together by issues of liberty and race that fueled revolutions across two continents. Thomas Jefferson published the founding documents of the United States. Thaddeus Kosciuszko was a hero of the American Revolution and later led a magnificent but failed uprising in Poland, his homeland. Agrippa Hull, a freeborn black New Englander, volunteered at eighteen to become listed on the Continental Military. During the Revolution, Hull dished up Kosciuszko as an orderly, and the two became fast friends. Kosciuszko's abhorrence of bondage formed histhinking about the oppression in his own land. When Kosciuszko returned to America in the 1790s, bearing the wounds of his own failed revolution, he and Jefferson forged an strong friendship based on their shared dreams for the global expansion of human liberty. They closed their relationship with a blood small whereby Jefferson would liberate his slaves after Kosciuszko's death. But Jefferson passed away without satisfying the promise he had made to Kosciuszko-and to a fledgling land founded on the basic principle of liberty and justice for those.
