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- It is 1775. Henry Felder, a Swiss-German colonist, lives with his family in the British colony of South Carolina. After many years of struggling with corrupt British rulers, Felder is urged by the new patriot governor to write Articles of Separation from the English King. Felder's old Indian fighting comrade forms a Tory militia to assist the Crown as the fight heats up.
- "John Laurens' War" is the fight for freedom by John Laurens from South Carolina, for every slave in America along with every colonist. During the War for American freedom, John told his slave-owning father, "We have sunk the Africans...below the Standard of Humanity." Along with his freed slave, he defies his father and becomes a trusted top aide to George Washington, willing to risk everything to create liberty in the new nation. As a an extraordinary warrior, brilliant visionary, charming enigma, John takes on the British army, his father, the new congress and before his death at 27, becomes one of our greatest abolitionists ninety years before slavery ended in America.
- Eight heroes from the American Revolution tell stories of danger, bravery and overcoming. Viewers meet John Featherstone, African American Naval mariner who fought in the first sea battle in Charleston Harbor in South Carolina, Daniel Morgan, wild, brilliant leader of revolutionary forces at the Battle of Cowpens, Rebecca Motte, clever spy who was willing to burn her home to force a company of British soldiers to surrender, Francis Marion, The Swamp Fox, shares how he became fearless in battle, Peter Harris, a Catawba warrior, fought German mercenaries with the patriots and Mary Tenor, a Christian slave woman who performed a unique act of mercy. Two Scholars, Professor Damon L. Fordham and Alexia Jones Helsley, trade off introducing the historic characters.