Coming Of Liberty: Youth Empowerment In The American Revolution

Whether people realize it or not, or whether they simply choose to ignore the facts, the youth are the next generation. No matter how you put it, it's obviously inevitable that one day we will be presidents, doctors, lawmakers, lawyers, scientists, astronauts; the future leaders of this world. Youth empowerment has a couple of different definitions but they all basically state the same thing. According to youthempoweredsolutions.org, youth empowerment is the outcome by which youth, as change agents, gain the skills to impact their own lives and lives of other individuals, organizations and communities. Youth empowerment can also be defined as the attitudinal, structural, and cultural process whereby young people gain the ability, authority, and agency to make decisions and implement change in their own lives and the lives of other people, including youth and adults according to selfgrowth.com. In summary, youth empowerment gives young adults the freedom and ability to voice their opinions on the subjects that affect them and
According to Emmy Werner, author of In Pursuit of Liberty: Coming of Age in the American Revolution, “[Teenagers] were a regular force, but one that was maybe not as visible as the adults were and therefore, very little has been written about their contributions. If you look at books that deal with history and war, the emphasis is always on the adults.” Teens were involved in the American uprising against British colonialism even before The Revolution. Ellis said, “A teenaged apprentice named Samuel Maverick was one of the five people killed in the so-called Boston Massacre, when British soldiers fired into a crowd of angry protesters on the night of March 5, 1770 — one of the initial sparks that would eventually flare into the American