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Britain, the slaves, and the American Revolution

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An edition of Rough crossings (2006)

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In response to a declaration by the last royal governor of Virginia that any rebel-owned slave who escaped and served the King would be emancipated, tens of thousands of slaves--Americans who clung to the sentimental notion of British freedom--escaped from farms, plantations and cities to try to reach the British camp. This mass movement lasted as long as the war did, and a military strategy originally designed to break the plantations of the American South had unleashed one of the great exoduses in American history. Schama details the odyssey of the escaped blacks through the fires of war and the terror of potential recapture at the war's end, into inhospitable Nova Scotia, where thousands who had served the Crown were betrayed and, in a little-known hegira of the slave epic, sent across the broad, stormy ocean to Sierra Leone.--From publisher description.̓

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Ecco
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English
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478

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Subjects
Blacks, Social aspects, Sklaverei, Slavery, Soziale Situation, African Americans, History, Colonization, Fugitive slaves, Abolitionists, Antislavery movements, Propaganda, Revolution, American Revolution (1775-1783) fast (OCoLC)fst01351668, New York Times reviewed, Slavery, united states, history, Blacks, great britain, United states, history, revolution, 1775-1783, Sierra leone, Black people
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United States, England, Schwarze, Gro britannien, USA / Revolution
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Revolution, 1775-1783, 18th century

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Table of Contents

British freedom's promise
Part one: Greeny
Part two: John
Endings, beginnings.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [423]-451) and index.

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326.0973/09033
Library of Congress
E269.N3 S33 2006, E269.N3S33 2006

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xiv, 478 p., [16] p. of plates :
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2005049504
OCLC/WorldCat
61652611

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