books.google.nl - If you were black in America at the start of the Revolutionary War, which side would you want to win? When the last British governor of Virginia declared that any rebel-owned slave who escaped and served the king would be emancipated, tens of thousands of slaves fled from farms, plantations, and cities...http://books.google.nl/books/about/Rough_Crossings.html?hl=nl&id=LOdREHbEiSEC&q=free+blacks&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareRough Crossings
