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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... slave trade Jonas Hanway, British reformer and philanthropist Henry Smeathman, British scientist and eccentric, original proposer of Sierra Leone as site for black settlement Thomas Boulden Thompson, commander of fleet carrying first ...
... slave trade Jonas Hanway, British reformer and philanthropist Henry Smeathman, British scientist and eccentric, original proposer of Sierra Leone as site for black settlement Thomas Boulden Thompson, commander of fleet carrying first ...
... slaves or at the very least to impose duties of twenty pounds on each new slave, a tariff heavy enough to act as a disincentive to buy and sell. (Rhode Island, with its major investment in the slave trade, was an exception to the non ...
... slave trade had been promoted and aggressively practised by sea captains such as John Hawkins), Sharp nonetheless found what he wanted. In 1569, according to Rushworth's Historical Collections, a certain Captain Cartwright had brought a ...
... slave trade would some day bring down the full weight of God's wrath on the heads of the sinful British.) But his ... slaves had persisted. The notion that slaves could be held to.
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 | |
Overige edities - Alles bekijken
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 |