Liberty’s Kids

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| show_name = Liberty's Kids
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| genre = [[Historical fiction]]
| creator = Kevin O'Donnell Michael Maliani
| developer = [[Andy Heyward]] Michael Maliani Kevin O'Donnell Robby London
| writer = [[Doug McIntyre]]
| director = Judy Reilly Marsha Goodman Einstein
| creative_director =
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| starring = [[Walter Cronkite]] as the voice of [[Benjamin Franklin]]
| judges =
| voices = [[Kathleen Barr]] [[Reo Jones]] Chris Lundquist D. Kevin Williams
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| theme_music_composer = [[Matthew Gerrard]]
| opentheme = "Through My Own Eyes" performed by [[Aaron Carter]] and Kayla Hinkle
| endtheme = "Through My Own Eyes" performed by Aaron Carter and Kayla Hinkle
| composer = Stephen C. Marston Craig Marks
| country = United States
| language = English
| num_seasons = 1
| num_episodes = 40
| list_episodes = #Episodes
| executive_producer = [[Andy Heyward]] Michael Maliani Robby London
| producer = Kevin O'Donnell Kaaren Brown
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| runtime = 30 minutes
| company = [[DIC Entertainment|DIC Entertainment Corporation]] [[Melusine (company)|Melusine Productions]] [[Hong Ying Animation|Hong Ying Universe Company, Ltd.]]
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| channel = [[PBS]] ([[PBS Kids]])
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| first_aired = {{Start date|2002|9|2}}
| last_aired = {{End date|2003|4|4}}
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'''''Liberty's Kids''''' (stylized on-screen as '''''Liberty's Kids: Est. 1776''''') is an American [[Animated television series|animated]] [[historical fiction]] television series produced by [[DIC Entertainment]] Corporation, originally broadcast by [[PBS]] on its [[PBS Kids]] block from September 2, 2002 to April 4, 2003, with reruns airing on most PBS stations until August 2004. The show has since been [[television syndication|syndicated]] by DiC to [[Network affiliate|affiliate]]s of smaller [[television networks]] such as [[The CW]] and [[MyNetworkTV]] and some [[independent station]]s so that those stations can fulfill [[E/I|FCC educational and informational]] requirements. Since September 16, 2006, the series aired on [[CBS]]'s new block called ''KOL Secret Slumber Party on CBS'', then it was aired on ''KEWLopolis'', named after [[Mike Bundlie]]'s [[KEWL Magazine]]. In 2008, it ran on [[History (U.S. TV network)|History]]. The series aired on [[Cookie Jar Toons]] on [[This TV]] and on CBS's [[Cookie Jar TV]] block from 2009 to 2013. In 2017, it played on [[Starz]] Kids & Family, and currently airs on [[Starz Encore]] Family.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.starz.com/series/27089/episodes/info |title=Liberty's Kids |author= |website=[[Starz|Starz.com]] |access-date=May 13, 2017}}</ref>

The series was based on an idea by Kevin O'Donnell and developed for television by Kevin O'Donnell, Robby London, Mike Maliani, and Andy Heyward. It received two Daytime Emmy nominations, in 2003 and 2004, both for Outstanding Performer in an Animated Program ([[Walter Cronkite]], playing [[Benjamin Franklin]]).<ref>[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0337550/awards?ref_=tt_awd Liberty's Kids: Awards] Internet Movie Database</ref> Its purpose is to teach its audience about the origins of the United States of America. Like the CBS cartoon mini-series ''[[This Is America, Charlie Brown]]'' years before, ''Liberty's Kids'' tells of young people in dramas surrounding the major events in the [[American Revolutionary War|Revolutionary War]] days.

Celebrity voices such as [[Walter Cronkite]] (as [[Benjamin Franklin]]), [[Sylvester Stallone]] (as [[Paul Revere]]), [[Ben Stiller]] (as [[Thomas Jefferson]]), [[Billy Crystal]] (as [[John Adams]]), [[Annette Bening]] (as [[Abigail Adams]]), [[Dustin Hoffman]] (as [[Benedict Arnold]]), [[Arnold Schwarzenegger]] (as [[Baron von Steuben]]), [[Liam Neeson]] (as [[John Paul Jones]]), [[Whoopi Goldberg]] (as [[Deborah Sampson]]), and [[Don Francisco (television host)|Don Francisco]] (as [[Bernardo de Gálvez]]) lend credence to characters critical to the forming of a free country, from the [[Boston Tea Party]] to the [[Constitutional Convention (United States)|Constitutional Convention]].

The shows run a half-hour, including commercials. During PBS airings, these are replaced by segments that include "The Liberty News Network" or LNN (a newscast delivered by Cronkite summarizing the events of the episode, with each including his signature sign-off "that's the way it is"), "Mystery Guest" (a guessing game where the kids guess a historical figure, who often is a character in the episode), "Now and Then" (a segment comparing life in the Revolutionary Era and today), and "Continental Cartoons" (a [[rebus]] word guessing game). The LNN segments were produced and art directed by designer [[Mike Bundlie]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Mike Bundlie IMDb |url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1776737/ |website=Imdb.com |publisher=IMDb}}</ref>

==Plot==
Benjamin Franklin and four fictional associates of his in their experiences during the American Revolution. Although the series spans 16 years from the Boston Tea Party in 1773 to the ratification of the U.S. Constitution in 1789, no main characters appear to age, except for Dr. Franklin.

==Characters==
===Fictional characters===
* Sarah Phillips (voiced by Reo Jones) - A bright-eyed girl from England, Sarah travels to the Thirteen Colonies in 1773 at age fifteen in search of her father, Big BlackBoy, who was last heard exploring the region of Ohio; upon her arrival, she is warmly welcomed by and lives as a guest of Benjamin Franklin. Her mother, Lady Phillips, remains in England and is a good friend to Dr. Franklin. However, with the possibility of a war between the American colonists and the English mother country, she decides that she will become a reporter for Franklin's newspaper in order to offer a more balanced perspective to the press. Sarah believes firmly in the power of words and equal rights for all, and is never afraid to speak her mind. At the start of the series, she is a firm loyalist, which sparks many arguments between her and James. Later in the series, Sarah has a change of heart and realizes how much she has come to understand the people of the colonies and ends up supporting the Revolution. Some men know the way to her heart - good manners; when this happens, James can seem almost jealous, although near the end of the series she appears to feel "more than friendship" for James. Throughout the series, Sarah and James grow closer. At the end of the series, her mother, Lady Phillips, joins Sarah and her father in the United States and Sarah hopes to explore more of her adopted country.
* James Hiller (voiced by Chris Lundquist) - A young American colonist who works as an apprentice journalist for Franklin's newspaper. James holds a great deal of respect and admiration for Dr. Franklin and his works, particularly his invention of the lightning rod, as when he was an infant both his parents died in a fire caused by a lightning strike. Street-smart and impulsive, James pursues the revolution from a slightly one-sided perspective - something that prompts Sarah to counter his views. An apprentice in Franklin's Print Shop, James believes firmly in the American cause and will do almost anything to ensure that the people receive an honest view of what is happening. In the process, he also faces the less positive aspects of the political conflict that eventually forces his patriotic fervor into a new maturity. He highly values his friends, Sarah and Henri. He can be a little protective of Sarah while he attempts to keep Henri out of trouble, acting somewhat like an older brother figure to Henri. He is very laid back and is constantly reminded of his bad etiquette and poor table manners by Sarah, toward whom he shows feelings of what might be "more than friendship". At the end of the series, James intends to start his own newspaper, following in the steps of his mentor.
* Henri Richard Maurice Dutoit LeFevbre (voiced by [[Kathleen Barr]]) - An energetic, rambunctious French boy, Henri shares a similar tragic story as James. Several years earlier, when he was six years old and still living in France, his parents made an agreement with a merchant for seven years of labor in exchange for passage to North America. However, during the voyage an illness broke out aboard ship, killing half of those onboard, including both Henri's parents. The merchant decided to make Henri his cabin boy and treated him very cruelly, until James and Moses discovered him locked in a cage while collecting a new printer from the merchant. Together they smuggled Henri off the ship and the boy found a home in Benjamin Franklin's workshop. While he speaks French fluently, Dr. Franklin has insisted that Henri learn to speak, read, and write in both English and French. Henri's small size has proved more than useful to Sarah and James, though he has a tendency to land himself in all sorts of trouble while not fully understanding the dangers of the war. His lookout on life is that of a "huge party for his benefit" and he has been labeled a "magnet for trouble." In later episodes, he serves on the drum and bugle corps of the Continental Army. Curious and fearless, the only thing Henri values more than his freedom is finding a family of his own. At the end of the series he returns to France with Marquis de Lafayette, whom he had become close to during the series almost as a son. It is implied that Lafayette adopts Henri as his foster-son.
* Moses (voiced by D. Kevin Williams) - Born in [[Africa]], Moses was brought in chains to North America as a slave and sold on the block in [[Charleston, South Carolina]]. Because of his ingenuity, Moses learned to read, [[smithing|forge metal]], and buy his [[Freedom (political)|freedom]] from his master, thus freeing himself from the slavery of the American south. To keep from being confused for a runaway slave, Moses is required to carry papers proving that he is a free man. He eventually moved to [[Philadelphia]] and found work at Dr. Franklin's Print Shop. His brother, Cato, had not been so fortunate but later escaped, joining the British troops as a soldier to earn his freedom. Cato appears again at the end of the series when he does not tell on an African American Patriot spy, James Armistead, whose spying was crucial to the American victory at Yorktown, which ends the war for American independence. Moses looks out for Dr. Franklin's young wards, especially Henri. Like Henri, he values his freedom more than anything. Iron-willed Moses will never allow anyone to strip him of his dignity, despite his or her feelings on race. By working at the Print Shop, Moses hopes to educate children of all colors in the ideals of America so that everyone may one day be free. At the end of the series, Moses reveals a plan to set up a school for free black children, boys and girls both, but only to Dr. Franklin and Marquis de Lafayette. Cato goes to Canada with Mrs. Radcliffe, a British loyalist and friend of Sarah and her mother.

===Historical characters depicted===
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====Continental Army, Navy, and American militia====
* [[George Washington]] (voiced by Cork Ramer)
* Colonel [[Ethan Allen]]
* Brigadier General [[George Rogers Clark]] (voiced by [[Norman Schwarzkopf]])
* Major General [[Thomas Conway]]
* [[Margaret Corbin|Margaret "Molly" Corbin]]
* Major General [[Horatio Gates]]
* Major General [[Nathanael Greene]] (voiced by John Michael Lee)
* [[Nathan Hale]]
* [[Alexander Hamilton]] (voiced by [[Andrew Rannells]])
* [[Charles Lee (general)|Charles Lee]]
* [[John Paul Jones]] (voiced by [[Liam Neeson]])
* [[Tadeusz Kościuszko]] - A Pole in Continental Army
* Colonel [[James Livingston (American Revolution)|James Livingston]]
* Colonel [[John Laurens]]
* Captain [[John Parker (captain)|John Parker]]
* [[John Paulding]] - Appears in "Benedict Arnold"
* [[Joseph Plumb Martin]] (voiced by [[Aaron Carter]])
* [[Israel Putnam]] - He appeared in the "Bunker Hill" and "The Turtle" episodes.
* Colonel [[Joseph Reed (politician)|Joseph Reed]]
* [[Deborah Samson]] aka Robert Shurtleff (voiced by [[Whoopi Goldberg]])
* [[John Sullivan (general)|John Sullivan]]
* [[Isaac Van Wart]] - Appears in "Benedict Arnold", no lines
* [[Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben|Baron Friedrich von Steuben]] (voiced by [[Arnold Schwarzenegger]]) - A Prussian officer in the Continental army.
* [[David Williams (soldier)|David Williams]] - Appears in "Benedict Arnold", no lines
* [[Anthony Wayne]]
* Udeny Wolf-Hutchinson (voiced by Carl Beck)

====British Army and Navy====
* [[John André]]
* [[John Burgoyne]]
* [[Henry Clinton (American War of Independence)|Henry Clinton]]
* General Lord [[Charles Cornwallis]] (voiced by [[Ralph Fiennes]])
* Admiral Lord [[Richard Howe]] (voiced by [[Michael York (actor)|Michael York]])
* General [[William Howe, 5th Viscount Howe|William Howe]]
* [[Richard Pearson (Royal Navy officer)|Richard Pearson]]
* [[Johann Rall]] - A Hessian Officer in British service.

====French officers====
* [[Marquis de Lafayette]] (voiced by Ben Beck)
* [[Comte de Rochambeau]]
* [[Johann De Kalb]]
* Admiral [[François Joseph Paul de Grasse|Comte de Grasse]]

====Spanish Army====
* [[Bernardo de Galvez]] (voiced by [[Don Francisco (television host)|Don Francisco]])

====Native Americans====
* [[Joseph Brant]] (voiced by [[Russell Means]])
* [[Cornstalk]] (voiced by Russell Means)
* Abraham Nimham

====Turncoats====
* [[Benedict Arnold]] (voiced by [[Dustin Hoffman]])

====American family members====
* [[Abigail Adams]] (voiced by [[Annette Bening]])
* [[John Quincy Adams]]
* [[Peggy Shippen]] (voiced by [[Maria Shriver]]) - A British Loyalist before she was married to [[Benedict Arnold]].
* [[Thomas Boylston Adams (1772–1832)|Thomas Adams]]

====American politicians====
* [[John Adams]] (voiced by [[Billy Crystal]])
* [[Jonathan L. Austin]] - Appears in "Allies at Last"
* [[Samuel Adams]]
* [[Samuel Chase]]
* [[Silas Deane]]
* [[Benjamin Franklin]] (voiced by [[Walter Cronkite]])
* [[John Hancock]]
* [[Patrick Henry]] (voiced by [[Michael Douglas]])
* [[John Jay]]
* [[Thomas Jefferson]] (voiced by [[Ben Stiller]])
* [[Henry Laurens]]
* [[Richard Henry Lee]]
* [[James Madison]] (voiced by [[Warren Buffett]])
* [[Caesar Rodney]]
* [[Edward Rutledge]]
* Dr [[Joseph Warren]]
* [[Luther Martin]]
* [[John Dickinson]]

====British politicians====
* [[George III of the United Kingdom|King George III]] (voiced by [[Charles Shaughnessy]])
* [[Charles James Fox|Charles Fox]]
* [[Alexander Wedderburn, 1st Earl of Rosslyn|Alexander Wedderburn]]
* [[Lord North]]

====Other historical figures====
* [[James Armistead]]
* [[Edward Bancroft]]
* [[David Bushnell]]
* [[Mum Bett|Elizabeth Freeman]] aka Mum Bett (voiced by [[Yolanda King]])
* [[James Craik]] - Appears in "Lafayette Arrives", no lines
* [[William Dawes]]
* [[Silas Deane]]
* [[Josiah Franklin]] - Appears in "In Praise of Ben", no lines
* [[James Franklin (printer)|James Franklin]]
* [[Charles Gravier, comte de Vergennes]]
* [[Moses Michael Hays]]
* [[John Honeyman]]
* [[Edward Jenner]]
* King [[Louis XVI of France]] - Appears in "Allies at Last", no lines
* [[Sybil Ludington]] (voiced by Kayla Hinkle)
* [[Thomas Paine]]
* [[Samuel Prescott]]
* [[Paul Revere]] (voiced by [[Sylvester Stallone]])
* [[Theodore Sedgwick]]
* [[Paul Wentworth (spy)|Paul Wentworth]]
* [[Benjamin West]]
* [[Phillis Wheatley]]
* [[John Witherspoon]]
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==Episodes==
The following are the ''Liberty's Kids'' episodes, with links to relevant historical articles.

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|EpisodeNumber=1
|Title=The Boston Tea Party
|Aux1=1773 December 16
|Aux2=[[Boston Tea Party]]
|Aux3=[[Samuel Adams]]
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2002|9|2}}
|ShortSummary= Sarah arrives in America aboard the Dartmouth,<ref>[http://www.boston-tea-party.org/darthmouth.html Boston Tea Party Ships] Boston Tea Party Historical Society</ref> but Moses, James and Henri are not the only ones who meet the ship. Sam Adams leads a gang of patriots dressed as Indians aboard to destroy the tea and the kids are caught in the middle. (Note: Due to the episode title with the inspired subject, Henri throws the [[parsley]] in the water and loudly yells, "[[No taxation without representation]]!" at the [[British Redcoat]]s.{{explain|date=August 2017}})
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{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber=2
|Title=The Intolerable Acts
|Aux1=1774 March
|Aux2=[[Intolerable Acts]]
|Aux3=[[Phillis Wheatley]]
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2002|9|3}}
|ShortSummary= James, Sarah, Henri and Moses are stuck in Boston at the home of Phillis Wheatley when Boston is under curfew due to the Acts. [[Alexander Wedderburn, 1st Earl of Rosslyn|Weddebrun]] castigates Franklin.
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{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber=3
|Title=United We Stand
|Aux1=1774 September
|Aux2=[[First Continental Congress]]
|Aux3=[[Abigail Adams]]
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2002|9|4}}
|ShortSummary= James covers the First Continental Congress, while Sarah travels to Boston to supply the resistance movement.
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{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber=4
|Title=Liberty or Death
|Aux1=1775 March
|Aux2=[[Give me Liberty, or give me Death!]]
|Aux3=[[Patrick Henry]]
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2002|9|5}}
|ShortSummary= Having travelled to Virginia to buy a new press, Moses sees his brother Cato about to be sold into slavery and attempts to stop it, while the kids hear that Patrick Henry is about to rally the southern patriots.
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{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber=5
|Title=Midnight Ride
|Aux1=1775 April
|Aux2=[[Paul Revere#The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere|Midnight Ride of Paul Revere]]
|Aux3=[[Paul Revere]]
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2002|9|6}}
|ShortSummary= James and Sarah travel to Boston with a message from the Mechanics, reconnoitre with Dr. Warren, and join [[Paul Revere]] and [[William Dawes]] on their midnight ride.
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{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber=6
|Title=The Shot Heard Round the World
|Aux1=1775 April
|Aux2=[[Battles of Lexington and Concord]]
|Aux3=[[John Parker (captain)|John Parker]]
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2002|9|9}}
|ShortSummary= James and Sarah witness the Battles of Lexington and Concord, where Sarah's cousin Tom is killed.
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{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber=7
|Title=Green Mountain Boys
|Aux1=1775 May
|Aux2=[[Capture of Fort Ticonderoga]]
|Aux3=[[Ethan Allen]]
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2002|9|10}}
|ShortSummary= James and Sarah meet up with Ethan Allen and the [[Green Mountain Boys]] in Vermont, watch them drive away a portly landowner, then stow away with Allen and [[Benedict Arnold]] when they capture [[Fort Ticonderoga]].
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{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber=8
|Title=The Second Continental Congress
|Aux1=1775 May
|Aux2=[[Second Continental Congress]]
|Aux3=[[John Hancock]]
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2002|9|11}}
|ShortSummary= A British spy urges James and Henri to find out what is going on in the closed sessions of the Second Continental Congress. Meanwhile, Sarah and Moses schmooze George Washington, a delegate to the Congress and the newly chosen general of the Continental Army.
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{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber=9
|Title=Bunker Hill
|Aux1=1775 June 17
|Aux2=[[Battle of Bunker Hill]]
|Aux3=[[Joseph Warren]]
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2002|9|12}}
|ShortSummary= James witnesses the Battle of Bunker Hill from the American camp, while Sarah is in the British camp looking for a British soldier who knew her father, who is killed in action. Dr. Joseph Warren is also killed in the fighting, much to James' grief.
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{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber=10
|Title=Postmaster General Franklin
|Aux1=1775 July
|Aux2=[[Benjamin Franklin]]
|Aux3=[[John Adams]]
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2002|9|13}}
|ShortSummary= James and Sarah attempt to deliver mail between Philadelphia and New York, meeting with a [[committee of correspondence]] on the way. Meanwhile, Franklin is appointed Postmaster General by the Second Continental Congress.
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{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber=11
|Title=Washington Takes Command
|Aux1=1775 April
|Aux2=[[Siege of Boston]] [[George Washington in the American Revolution|George Washington]]
|Aux3=[[George Washington]]
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2002|9|16}}
|ShortSummary= The gang winters in Boston, where General Washington takes command and lifts the British occupation of Boston. James joins [[Henry Knox]] on his sojourn to Fort Ticonderoga.
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{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber=12
|Title=Common Sense
|Aux1=1776 January
|Aux2=[[Common Sense (pamphlet)|Common Sense]]
|Aux3=[[Thomas Paine]]
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2002|9|17}}
|ShortSummary= Ben's old friend Thomas Paine comes by to ask them to print his book ''Common Sense'', which makes the case for breaking away from Britain. James and Henri are inspired, but Sarah is repulsed by the notion of rebellion and will not even read it.
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{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber=13
|Title=The First Fourth of July
|Aux1=1776 July
|Aux2=[[United States Declaration of Independence|Declaration of Independence]]
|Aux3=[[Thomas Jefferson]]
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2002|9|18}}
|ShortSummary= James attempts to find out more about the debate over the Declaration; he rounds up delegates from New Jersey and [[Caesar Rodney|Delaware]]. Meanwhile, Sarah goes through Thomas Jefferson's trash.
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{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber=14
|Title=New York, New York
|Aux1=1776 July
|Aux2=[[New York and New Jersey campaign]]; [[Battle of Long Island]]
|Aux3=[[William Alexander, Lord Stirling|Lord Stirling]]
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2002|9|19}}
|ShortSummary= Sarah visits Mrs. Radcliffe, a New York Loyalist. Meanwhile, James witnesses the loss of New York City to the British and Henri pretends to be an American spy.
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{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber=15
|Title=The Turtle
|Aux1=1776 September
|Aux2=[[American Turtle|The Turtle]]
|Aux3=[[David Bushnell]]
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2002|9|20}}
|ShortSummary= Hearing rumors of a sea monster in New York Harbor, the kids investigate and stumble across David Bushnell and his prototype submarine. They also run into Admiral [[Richard Howe]], the commander of the British fleet in New York.
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{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber=16
|Title=One Life to Lose
|Aux1=1776 September
|Aux2=[[Nathan Hale]]
|Aux3=[[Nathan Hale]]
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2002|9|23}}
|ShortSummary= The kids discover that Nathan Hale is a spy and witness his execution. Meanwhile, James is almost [[impressment|impressed into the British Navy]] and Franklin attends the [[Staten Island Peace Conference]].
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{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber=17
|Title=Captain Molly
|Aux1=1776 November
|Aux2=[[Battle of Fort Washington]] [[Margaret Corbin]]
|Aux3=[[Thomas Jefferson]]
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2002|9|24}}
|ShortSummary= Sarah encamps with [[Margaret Corbin]] at [[Fort Tryon]], while James witnesses the loss of Forts Tryon and [[Fort Washington (New York)|Washington]] to the British.
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{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber=18
|Title=American Crisis
|Aux1=1776 December
|Aux2=''[[The American Crisis]]'', [[New York and New Jersey campaign]]
|Aux3=Robert Bell
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2002|9|25}}
|ShortSummary= James and Sarah witness the terrible conditions of the Continental Army after defeats in New York and New Jersey and return to Philadelphia to help Thomas Paine publish ''The American Crisis''.
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{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber=19
|Title=Across the Delaware
|Aux1=1776 December
|Aux2=[[Washington's crossing of the Delaware]] [[Battle of Trenton]]
|Aux3=[[John Honeyman]]
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2002|9|26}}
|ShortSummary= James learns of a plan to attack the British before enlistments run out, then crosses the Delaware with Washington before the Battle of Trenton.
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{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber=20
|Title=An American in Paris
|Aux1=1776 December
|Aux2=[[Benjamin Franklin#Ambassador to France: 1776–1785|Franklin in France]], [[Forage War]]
|Aux3=[[Silas Deane]]; [[Alexander Hamilton]]
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2002|9|27}}
|ShortSummary= Franklin, now ambassador to France, works tirelessly to get military aid from the French foreign minister [[Charles Gravier, comte de Vergennes|Vergennes]]. Meanwhile, James meets up with Capt. Alexander Hamilton on the way to Washington's winter encampment at [[Morristown, New Jersey]], and Sarah contracts smallpox in Boston, recovering with the assistance of [[Abigail Adams]] in what is today [[Quincy, Massachusetts]].
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{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber=21
|Title=Sybil Ludington
|Aux1=1777 April
|Aux2=[[Sybil Ludington]] [[Battle of Ridgefield]]
|Aux3=[[Sybil Ludington]]
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2002|9|30}}
|ShortSummary= James goes to Connecticut to learn of Colonel [[Henry Ludington]] and instead learns of the exploits of the "female Paul Revere". Meanwhile, Sarah is again with Benedict Arnold and both witness the destruction of [[Danbury, Connecticut|Danbury]] by the British.
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{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber=22
|Title=Lafayette Arrives
|Aux1=1777 September
|Aux2=[[Marquis de Lafayette]] [[Battle of Brandywine]]
|Aux3=[[Johann de Kalb|Baron de Kalb]]
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2002|10|1}}
|ShortSummary= Lafayette arrives in Philadelphia and meets the kids before offering his services to the Continental Congress. He is later wounded at the Battle of Brandywine.
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{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber=23
|Title=The Hessians are Coming
|Aux1=1777 June
|Aux2=[[Saratoga Campaign]]
|Aux3=[[Philip Schuyler]]
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2002|10|2}}
|ShortSummary= Both James and Sarah witness the Battle of Saratoga, Sarah from her coverage of Benedict Arnold and James from the vantage point of being tied to a Hessian deserter.
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{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber=24
|Title=Valley Forge
|Aux1=1778 February
|Aux2=[[Valley Forge]]
|Aux3=[[Baron von Steuben]]
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2002|10|3}}
|ShortSummary= James and Sarah see the hardship that [[Joseph Plumb Martin]] and other foot soldiers endure during the war; Washington faces a possible mutiny; von Steuben drills Washington's troops.
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{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber=25
|Title=Allies at Last
|Aux1=1778 February
|Aux2=[[Treaty of Alliance (1778)|Franco-American Alliance]] Rhode Island Loyalty Oath
|Aux3=[[Jonathan L. Austin#Massachusetts Board of War|Jonathan L. Austin]]; [[Moses Michael Hays]]
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2002|10|4}}
|ShortSummary= In [[Passy#Benjamin Franklin in Passy|Passy]], Franklin is able to negotiate a treaty of alliance and an audience with [[Louis XVI of France|King Louis XVI]]. Meanwhile, James and Moses travel to [[Newport, Rhode Island]] and meet with Jewish merchant [[Moses Michael Hays]] while Sarah and Henri remain in occupied Philadelphia...and they hate it.
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{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber=26
|Title=Honor and Compromise
|Aux1=1778 June
|Aux2=[[Articles of Confederation]] [[Battle of Monmouth]]
|Aux3=[[Henry Laurens]]; [[Daniel Nimham|Abraham Nimham]]
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2002|11|4}}
|ShortSummary= The Continental Congress in York is divided among factions led by [[Richard Henry Lee]] and [[Samuel Chase]]. Meanwhile, Washington has to deal with opposition from General [[Charles Lee (general)|Charles Lee]] with regard to his battle strategy.
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{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber=27
|Title=The New Frontier
|Aux1=1779 October
|Aux2=[[Fort Wilson riot]] [[Cornstalk]]
|Aux3=[[Cornstalk]]
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2002|11|5}}
|ShortSummary= In Philadelphia, James encounters mob violence against [[James Wilson]]. Meanwhile, Sarah is on the Ohio frontier, where she encounters her father and Shawnee chief Cornstalk.
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{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber=28
|Title=Not Yet Begun to Fight
|Aux1=1779 September
|Aux2=[[Battle of Flamborough Head]]
|Aux3=[[John Paul Jones]]
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2002|11|6}}
|ShortSummary= Shipwrecked on her way back to England, Sarah is rescued by the ''Bonhomme Richard'' and in the midst of battle, John Paul Jones helps her see that her true loyalty lies with America.
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{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber=29
|Title=The Great Galvez
|Aux1=1780 March
|Aux2=[[Siege of Fort Vincennes|Siege of Vincennes]] [[Battle of Fort Charlotte]] [[Bernardo de Gálvez y Madrid, Count of Gálvez|Bernardo de Galvez]]
|ShortSummary= James is on the frontier, where he meets [[George Rodgers Clark]] and Bernando de Galvez, the latter at the [[Battle of Fort Charlotte]]. Meanwhile, Sarah is in England, but it no longer feels like home.
|Aux3=[[Bernardo de Gálvez y Madrid, Count of Gálvez|Bernardo de Galvez]]; [[Charles James Fox|Charles Fox]]
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2002|11|7}}
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{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber=30
|Title=In Praise of Ben
|Aux1=Various
|Aux2=[[Benjamin Franklin]]
|ShortSummary= When Sarah arrives back from England, she finds Henri fighting with a young boy. Henri explains that he has done this because the boy was saying bad things about Ben Franklin. The boy says he only said this because that is what his father said. So, Sarah, Moses and James explain to the boy and his father about Ben Franklin's life and inventions.
|Aux3=[[Benjamin Franklin]]
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2002|11|8}}
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{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber=31
|Title=Bostonians
|Aux1=1780 June
|Aux2=[[Cherry Valley massacre]] [[Adams Family]]
|ShortSummary= Sarah again visits the Adams family, when John is drafting the [[Massachusetts Constitution]] and preparing for a diplomatic mission to Europe. Meanwhile, James learns the horrors of the war for Native Americans from Iroquois chief [[Joseph Brant]].
|Aux3=[[Joseph Brant]]
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2002|11|11}}
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}}
{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber=32
|Title=Benedict Arnold
|Aux1=1780 July
|Aux2=[[Benedict Arnold]]
|ShortSummary= James is interviewing skinners when they capture British spy [[John André|Andre]], who is carrying blueprints of West Point. Finding out where he got them, James must later comfort Sarah when her friend, General Arnold, is unmasked as a traitor.
|Aux3=[[Benedict Arnold]]
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2003|1|20}}
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}}
{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber=33
|Title=Conflict in the South
|Aux1=1781 January
|Aux2=[[Raid of Richmond]] [[Southern theater of the American Revolutionary War]]
|ShortSummary= James tags along with General [[Nathanael Greene]] on his campaign in the South. Meanwhile, Sarah is horrified when she finds out that [[Thomas Jefferson]] owns slaves. Thomas Jefferson admits that he does not like the fact.
|Aux3=[[Nathanael Greene]]
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2003|1|21}}
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}}
{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber=34
|Title=Deborah Samson: Soldier of the Revolution
|Aux1=1781 July
|Aux2=[[Deborah Sampson]] [[Battle of Rhode Island]]
|ShortSummary= Sarah meets Deborah Samson, a female soldier who enlisted under the identity Robert Shurtleff. Meanwhile, General Washington attempts to organize an offensive with [[Jean Rochambeau|General Rochambeau]] from their base in Rhode Island and Vergennes attempts to organize a peace conference with the British.
|Aux3=[[Deborah Sampson]]; [[John Laurens]]
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2003|1|22}}
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{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber=35
|Title=James Armistead
|Aux1=1781 September
|Aux2=[[James Armistead]]
|ShortSummary= Encamped with Lafayette's army in Virginia, Henri enlists as a drummer boy and Sarah meets slave and double agent [[James Armistead]]. Meanwhile, General Washington prepares for a major offensive against the British.
|Aux3=[[James Armistead]]
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2003|1|23}}
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}}
{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber=36
|Title=Yorktown
|Aux1=1781 October
|Aux2=[[Siege of Yorktown]]
|ShortSummary= James and Sarah witness the epic battle of Yorktown. Meanwhile, Moses' brother may not get the freedom he was promised, since the British lost.
|Aux3=[[Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis|Charles Cornwallis]]
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2003|3|31}}
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{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber=37
|Title=Born Free and Equal
|Aux1=1781 August
|Aux2=[[Mum Bett]]
|ShortSummary= Sarah travels to the Berkshires and learns of [[Mum Bett]], a slave who sues for her freedom and wins with help from attorney Theodore Sedgwick. Meanwhile, [[George III of England|King George III]] is unwilling to admit that England has lost the war.
|Aux3=[[Elizabeth Freeman]]
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2003|4|1}}
|LineColor=ccc321
}}
{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber=38
|Title=The Man Who Wouldn’t Be King
|Aux1=1783 March, December
|Aux2=[[Newburgh Conspiracy]], [[George Washington's resignation as commander-in-chief]]
|ShortSummary= When interviewing Washington, James learns that officers in the Continental Army want to overthrow the government and install Washington as monarch, something Washington finds abhorrent. The episode ends with Washington going to Annapolis and [[George Washington's resignation as commander-in-chief|resigning his commission]] on December 23, 1783.
|Aux3=[[Benjamin West]]
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2003|4|2}}
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}}
{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber=39
|Title=Going Home
|Aux1=1786 August
|Aux2=[[Shays' Rebellion]]
|ShortSummary= James visits Daniel Shays, who is upset about the conditions Revolutionary War veterans are facing and leads a rebellion to shut the government down. In New York, Sarah again visits her Loyalist friend Mrs. Radcliffe, who ends up moving to Canada with Moses' brother Cato. Meanwhile, James considers buying a newspaper, Henri decides to go to France with Lafayette and Franklin returns to America with Lady Phillips.
|Aux3=[[Daniel Shays]]
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2003|4|3}}
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}}
{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber=40
|Title=We the People
|Aux1=1787 May
|Aux2=[[Philadelphia Convention]]
|ShortSummary= James and Sarah attempt to find out what is going on at the Constitutional Convention, and Moses is upset that the constitution does not abolish slavery. Benjamin Franklin predicts that it will take [[American Civil War|another war]] to end slavery.
|Aux3=[[James Madison]]
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2003|4|4}}
|LineColor=ccc321
}}
}}

==Broadcast==
''Liberty's Kids'' was formerly shown on [[CBS]] in the United States on [[Cookie Jar TV]], and also shown on [[History (U.S. TV network)|History]], [[Cookie Jar Toons]], [[Cookie Jar Kids Network]], [[This TV]], [[MyNetworkTV]], and [[The CW]], [[Spacetoon]], [[Spacetoon English]].

==Home media releases==
[[PBS Home Video]] released a VHS/DVD boxset of the series in 2003 for educational purposes. The boxset contained 20 VHS's/DVDs containing 2 episodes each. The company also released a 6-DVD boxset. The boxsets also came with resource guides. The DVD Set was later re-released by PBS in the 2010's.

In January 2005, Ten-Strike Home Entertainment released 3 VHS's/DVDs of the series - The Boston Tea Party: The Movie, Give Me Liberty and The First Fourth of July, each containing 3 episodes in a feature-length format. The DVD version also came with an assortment of bonus features including a character guide, Historical Biographies and DVD-ROM features which are a printable coloring book and a web link. These releases were made for public use. Ten-Strike planned to release 3 more DVDs, titled Heroes and Traitors, American Battles and Daughters of the American Revolution in Stoewmber 2005 respectively, but they were never released.

On October 14, 2008, [[Shout! Factory]] released ''Liberty's Kids: The Complete Series'' on DVD in Region 1.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/Libertys-Kids-The-Complete-Series/10040|title=Liberty's Kids DVD news: Box Art for Liberty's Kids - The Complete Series {{!}} TVShowsOnDVD.com|website=www.tvshowsondvd.com|access-date=2016-09-05|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160920192846/http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/Libertys-Kids-The-Complete-Series/10040|archivedate=2016-09-20|df=}}</ref> The six-disc box set contains all 40 episodes of the series as well as several bonus features. This release has been discontinued and is out of print as Shout! Factory no longer has the distribution rights to the series.

On July 16, 2013, [[Mill Creek Entertainment]] re-released ''Liberty's Kids: The Complete Series'' on DVD in a 4-disc set.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/Libertys-Kids-The-Complete-Series/18384|title=Liberty's Kids DVD news: Announcement for Liberty's Kids - The Complete Series {{!}} TVShowsOnDVD.com|website=www.tvshowsondvd.com|access-date=2016-09-05|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160916104013/http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/Libertys-Kids-The-Complete-Series/18384|archivedate=2016-09-16|df=}}</ref> Each disc contains 10 episodes each.

On February 14, 2017, [[Mill Creek Entertainment]] released ''Liberty's Kids: The Complete Series: Education Edition'' on DVD in Region 1.<ref>[http://tvshowsondvd.com/news/Libertys-Kids-The-Complete-Series-Education-Edition/22901 'The Complete Series: Education Edition' DVDs are Announced] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161222153500/http://tvshowsondvd.com/news/Libertys-Kids-The-Complete-Series-Education-Edition/22901 |date=2016-12-22 }}</ref> The 3-disc set contains all 40 episodes of the series as well as in-depth study guides for all episodes and activity pages.

==References==
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==External links==
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