One of the [poems] I have in here is a Republican sea chanty. It says, 'Cause government's the problem, lads, Americans would all do well to shun it. Yes, government's the problem, lads, at least it is when we're the ones who run it.'
It's July of 1776, and the fledgling United States has just declared its independence from the motherland, but the path to full freedom is obscure, fraught with danger seen and unseen. And it was a time when people's true loyalties were sometimes just as obscure. That's the world shown us by Lucia St. Clair Robson in her historical novel, based on carefully researched facts.
One of the [poems] I have in here is a Republican sea chanty. It says, 'Cause government's the problem, lads, Americans would all do well to shun it. Yes, government's the problem, lads, at least it is when we're the ones who run it.' 
