While working for the Culper Ring, Elizabeth Burgin helped save hundreds of people from these places because women were the only people able to visit them. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name these places that the British hulked near New York City. A Martyrs’ Monument in Fort Greene Park honors more than 11,000 Americans who died in these places during the Revolutionary War.
ANSWER: prison ships [prompt on prisons by asking “in what structures?”; prompt on ships by asking “serving what purpose?”]
[10e] The most notorious British prison ship was named for this island, which names the modern-day state where the Battle of Monmouth occurred.
ANSWER: Jersey [accept HMS Jersey; accept New Jersey]
[10h] One prisoner who survived the HMS Jersey was this man, who advocated for civil rights in his Letters from a Man of Colour. This Black businessman helped fund William Lloyd Garrison’s newspaper The Liberator.
ANSWER: James Forten
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