An Asylum for Mankind (May 1775 – July 1776)
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The American Revolution

An Asylum for Mankind (May 1775 – July 1776)

Congress puts George Washington in command of a new Continental Army; Congress declares American independence in July 1776.

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Adam Arkin

James Parker / Ashbel Green / Andrew Hunter / Enoch Anderson / Timothy Dwight / Robert Morris (voice)

Josh Brolin

George Washington (voice)

Josh Charles

Joseph Warren / John Peters / David Ramsey (voice)

Hugh Dancy

Hugh Percy / John Burgoyne / Banastre Tarleton / Comte de Vergennes (voice)

Claire Danes

Abigail Adams (voice)

Craig Ferguson

John Murray / John Jones / John Purrier / Martin Hunter / William Harcourt (voice)

Paul Giamatti

John Adams (voice)

Amanda Gorman

Phillis Wheatley (voice)

Charlotte Hacke

Friederike Riedesel / Hannah Davis / Lucy Knox / Martha Reeves (voice)

Tom Hanks

(voice)

Samuel L. Jackson

Caesar Sarter / Lemuel Haynes / Boston King (voice)

Joe Keery

John Greenwood (voice)

Damian Lewis

King George III / Nicholas Cresswell / John Andre / Bartholomew James (voice)

Laura Linney

Sarah Logan Fisher / Sarah Morris Mifflin / Eliza Wilkinson / Eliza Lucas Pickney (voice)

Tobias Menzies

Edmund Burke / Ambrose Serle / Cornwallis / William Pitt (voice)

Edward Norton

Benjamin Rush / Philip Vickers Fithian / Philip Schuyler (voice)

Mandy Patinkin

Benjamin Franklin (voice)

Liev Schreiber

Samuel Adams / Nathaniel Greene / Lewis Beebe (voice)

Corbin Bleu

John Joseph Henry / Daniel McCurtin / Nathaniel Bacheller / Isaac Jefferson (voice)

Kenneth Branagh

(voice)

Jeff Daniels

Thomas Jefferson (voice)

Bruce Davison

(voice)

Domhnall Gleeson

Loftus Cliffe / Roger Lamb / John MacPherson / John Bowater / William Barton (voice)

Michael Greyeyes

Joseph Brant / Uhhaunauwaunmut (voice)

Josh Hutcherson

James Potter Collins / Thomas Mellen / Jabez Campfield (voice)

Gene Jones

Landon Carter / Thomas Nelson / Moses Kirkland / Thomas Young (voice)

Michael Keaton

Benedict Arnold (voice)

Josh Lucas

George Rogers Clark / John Glover / Drury Mathias (voice)

Joe Morton

Elisha Bostwick / Elias Dayton (voice)

David Oyelowo

Olaudah Equiano / Sam (voice)

Yul Vazquez

Henry Knox / José de Gálvez (voice)

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