Voices of Liberty In Tribute to The American Revolution

By Robert Keiper

Voices of Liberty is a play for a single actor that was performed at Lincoln Center, Faneuil Hall in Boston and in tours across the country. A narrator introduces people from both sides of the American Revolution, and we learn what Liberty meant to them. Before the first shots were fired, Patrick Henry passionately defends the colonists right to stand against British tyranny. Then we share the first battle of the war with a British soldier as he yearns for something more valuable in his life. There’s a high-born British officer who thinks little of the colonists until he encounters them in conflict. We meet a colonial farmer volunteer who gives a detailed account of what happened at Bunker Hill and tells how that day taught him the meaning of freedom. General Wahington’s aide describes the day he recruited a spy, and finally we discover how Nathan Hale’s last words became a beacon of hope to all in the colonies.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Robert Keiper
• Release date: Mar 25, 2021
• ISBN: 9781638482963

Robert Keiper

Robert Keiper built a career on finding creative ways to communicate ideas. He is an actor, director and writer in films and theater. He coaches individuals in writing and presentation skills and has conducted workshops on those topics for business clients across the world. He is a frequent speaker on business leadership topics. His company designed videoconferencing systems for corporate and government agencies and he has narrated more than a dozen audiobooks, including “Voices of Liberty.”

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Voices of Liberty

In Tribute

To the American Revolution

Written and Published by Robert Keiper

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Copyright © 2021, Robert Keiper

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CONTENTS

The Call for Liberty

Lexington and Concord

Bunker Hill

A Value to Live For

The Call for Liberty

NARRATOR

In the colonies on the edge of the American continent, far from the cultural centers of the world, there was growing discontent. Denied the right to expand into the largely unexplored country beyond the mountains, then taxed and regulated by the parliament in England with no voice in those assessments, the colonists felt they existed solely for the financial benefit of the home country and were being denied inalienable rights. As the resentment grew, they began to think of turning that new land of theirs into a place where such rights were protected by law.

But to the authorities in London, the people in the colonies were lawful subjects of the King, under the protection and control of the British Empire. So when Parliament exercised their authority to supervise, regulate and tax the colonies, they expected the colonial people to obey those regulations and pay those taxes without protest, and they felt certain the presence of those redcoated regiments, housed and fed in the colonial cities, would act to remind the farmers and shopkeepers in the colonies that no matter how loud their protests, they