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Item Nr: B 122755 Title: Spy Called James: The True Story of James Lafayette, Revolutionary War Double Agent
Grade Lvl: PI Author: Rockwell, Anne F
Length: 32 Prod/Pub: Carolrhoda Books
Copyright: 2016 Series:
Book Type: NP Biographee: Lafayette, James Armistead, 1760?-1830.
Copies: 3 Loan Period: 42 days
 
  Book relates the story of James Armistead Lafayette, an American slave and spy whose information helped end the American Revolutionary War. He worked as a double agent, passing on misleading information to the British which led to the defeat of Cornwallis at the battle of Yorktown. After the war, he fought the Virginia General Assembly to gain his freedom. James took the last name Lafayette in tribute to what the Marquis de Lafayette did to help him become a free man. A reproduction of the letter written by Lafayette in 1784 appears on the endpaper. AR 5.2 RC 6.3 Lexile 940 IL 2-5.

  Subjects:
  791 - AFRICAN AMERICANS
  204 - BIOGRAPHY
  1601 - BIOGRAPHY--MEN
  589 - HEROES/HEROINES
  1679 - LEXILE 900-999
  144 - PICTURE BOOK FOR OLDER READERS
  1840 - PRIMARY SOURCES
  998 - SLAVERY
  1027 - SPIES
  1113 - U.S.--HISTORY--REVOLUTION/REVOLUTIONARY WAR