Espionage and Enslavement in the Revolution: The True Story of Robert Townsend and Elizabeth is about two hundred pages and covers a lot of ground. It starts with the beginning of Oyster Bay (Long Island) and the coming of the Townsend family. We get various things about the American Revolution, the espionage part is a focus of a chapter in particular, and we have the travels (and forced travels) of a Townsend slave (Liss/Elizabeth).
This is just a summary. There is a lot packed in here. The title and picture of Liss on the cover might suggest to some that we will hear more about her in particular. But, we simply do not have the material, so she disappears for chunks of time. Still, it's a good book, and a decent idea for a miniseries. Liss' life might be a good plot for a fictional account, that can imagine more details. Some such works are quite good at doing that realistically.
As with the last review, this might be a longer entry elsewhere.
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