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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... Dunmore, last British governor of Virginia, responsible for 1775 proclamation offering freedom to slaves of Patriots in return for military service with the Royal Army Lord William Campbell, last British governor of South Carolina ...
... Dunmore, the last colonial governor of Virginia, from HMS William on the 7th of November 1775 unequivocally promised outright liberty to all slaves escaping from rebel plantations, reaching British lines and serving in some capacity ...
... Dunmore as “that arch traitor to the rights of humanity” for promising to free slaves and indentured servants, whilst those who kept them in bondage were heroes of liberty. For blacks, the news that the British Were Coming was a reason ...
... way of intimidating the Patriots. These suspicions were not altogether paranoid. By early 1775, many months before Dunmore's proclamation from the William, there had indeed been suggestions both from royal officials in.
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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 |