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Genre/Form: | History |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Alan Gilbert |
ISBN: | 9780226101552 022610155X 9780226293073 0226293076 |
OCLC Number: | 859555957 |
Description: | xvi, 369 pages ; 23 cm |
Contents: | Introduction: Fear, hope, and the two revolutions in America -- Lord Dunmore, black insurrection, and the independence movement in Virginia and South Carolina -- Emancipation and revolution: the conjunction of pragmatism and principle -- The Laurens family and emancipation -- Black fighters for freedom: patriot recruitment and the two revolutions -- Black fighters for freedom: British recruitment and the two revolutions -- Black fighters in the two revolutions -- Honor in defeat -- Postwar black emigrations: the search for freedom and self-government -- Democratic internationalism and the seeds of freedom. |
Responsibility: | Alan Gilbert. |
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"An elegant and passionate writer, Alan Gilbert pulls no punches, and not surprisingly a number of white founders attract his censure." (Historian) "Drawing on first-person accounts and other primary sources, Alan Gilbert tells an often inspiring but ultimately sad story, since American slavery endured and even expanded after the revolution. Still, the personal stories of those who fought on the patriots' side in an all-black regiment and on the loyalist side in exchange for a promise of freedom are fascinating and informative. Gilbert convincingly asserts that their example eventually helped inspire other liberation movements in the Western Hemisphere." (Booklist)" Read more...


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