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Rough Crossings: The Slaves, the British, and the American Revolution – A Moving and Extraordinary History of Escape and Emancipation

Simon Schama

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Description:Rough Crossings turns on a single huge question: if you were black in America at the start of the Revolutionary War, who would you want to win?Tens of thousands gave their answer, voting with their feet for Britain and King George. In response to a declaration by the last 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.With powerfully vivid storytelling, often in the voices of the slaves themselves and the white abolitionists who became their emancipators and protectors, 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.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Rough Crossings: The Slaves, the British, and the American Revolution – A Moving and Extraordinary History of Escape and Emancipation. To get started finding Rough Crossings: The Slaves, the British, and the American Revolution – A Moving and Extraordinary History of Escape and Emancipation, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Publisher: HarperCollins e-books

Release: 2009

ISBN: 0061914606

Description: Rough Crossings turns on a single huge question: if you were black in America at the start of the Revolutionary War, who would you want to win?Tens of thousands gave their answer, voting with their feet for Britain and King George. In response to a declaration by the last 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.With powerfully vivid storytelling, often in the voices of the slaves themselves and the white abolitionists who became their emancipators and protectors, 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.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Rough Crossings: The Slaves, the British, and the American Revolution – A Moving and Extraordinary History of Escape and Emancipation. To get started finding Rough Crossings: The Slaves, the British, and the American Revolution – A Moving and Extraordinary History of Escape and Emancipation, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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