Rough Crossings: The Slaves, the British, and the American RevolutionHarper Collins, 28 apr 2009 - 512 pagina's “The most dramatic account so far of the extraordinary expeience of slaves in and after the American Revolution. . . . Schama’s gift for plunging us into the very center of the action makes reading an exhilarating and often moving experience.”—Daily Telegraph If you were black in America at the start of the Revolutionary War, whom would you want to win? In response to a declaration by the last governor of Virginia that any rebel-owned slave who escaped and served the King would be emancpated, tens of thousands of blacks voted with feet, escaping to fight beside the British. Originally designed to break the plantations of the American South, this military strategy instead unleashed one of the great exoduses in American history. Told in the voices of the slaves and the white abolitionists who aided them, Simon Schama vividly details the odyssey of these escaped blacks, shedding light on an extraordinary chapter in America’s birth. |
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... black loyalist soliders and sappers General Sir Henry Clinton, British commander-in-chief in America, patron and protector of British Black Pioneers David George, African-American Baptist minister, escaped slave, free settler with his ...
... free black carpenter from Charleston, settler in Sierra Leone, militant campaigner for black rights Nathaniel Wansey, leader, with Isaac Anderson, of revolt against goverment of Sierra Leone William Dawes, acting governor of Sierra ...
... free black, landowner, trader with Sierra Leone, Quaker and abolitionist Frederick Douglass, escaped slave-turned-abolitionist orator The Hutchinson Family singers: Jesse, Abby, Judson and Asa, white religious and folk singers ...
... free.”4 A generation later, blacks conspicuously excluded from the blessings of American liberty derided “what they call Free in this Cuntry [sic]” in the words of Towers Bell, a “true Brittam” as he signed himself. Bell wrote to the ...
... freedom even when they knew that the English were far from being saints in respect to slavery. Until 1800, when its courts decisively ruled the institution illegal, there were slaves, as well as free blacks, in Nova Scotia, and there ...
Inhoudsopgave
Chapter I | |
Chapter II | |
Chapter III | |
Chapter IV | |
Chapter V | |
Chapter VI | |
Chapter VIII | |
Chapter IX | |
Chapter X | |
Chapter XI | |
Chapter XII | |
Endings Beginnings | |
Acknowledgements | |
Other Books by Simon Schama | |
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Rough Crossings: The Slaves, the British, and the American Revolution Simon Schama Geen voorbeeld beschikbaar - 2009 |
Rough Crossings: The Slaves, the British, and the American Revolution Simon Schama Geen voorbeeld beschikbaar - 2007 |