Increasing difficulties in recruiting soldiers forces Congress to compel states to conscript soldiers for the 1780 campaign, leading to complaints of a standing army.
Pennsylvania passes the first state law abolishing slavery over time. While the law begins the process, it would not lead to a single slave being freed under the law until 1808.
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Book Recommendation of the Week: The First Emancipation: The Abolition of Slavery in the North, by Arthur Zilversmit (or read on Archive.org)
Online Recommendation of the Week: Kestnbaum, Meyer "Citizenship and Compulsory Military Service: The Revolutionary Origins of Conscription in the United States.” Armed Forces & Society, vol. 27, no. 1, 2000, pp. 7–36, http://www.jstor.org/stable/45346398
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Episode 115 Congress and French Diplomacy
Episode 114 Escape from Fort Lee
Episode 113 The Fall of Fort Washington
Episode 112 The Battle of White Plains
Episode 111 Retreat from Lake Champlain
Episode 110 The Battle of Valcour Island
Episode 109 Great Fire of NY & Hanging Nathan Hale
Episode 108 The French Connection
Episode 107 Kip's Bay and Harlem Heights
Episode 106 Arms Race on Lake Champlain
Episode 105 Staten Island Peace Conference
Episode 104 Submarine Warfare
Episode 103 The Battle of Brooklyn
Episode 102 Cherokee War in the South
Episode 101 The British Land at Staten Island
Episode 100 The Declaration of Independence
Episode 099 Drafting the Declaration
Episode 098 Voting for Independence
Episode 097 A Coup in Philadelphia
Episode 096 The Battle for Sullivan's Island
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