Black patriots and loyalists : fighting for emancipation in the War for Independence / Alan Gilbert.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gilbert, Alan
Language:English
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2012.
Subjects:
African American soldiers > History > 18th century.
Antislavery movements > United States > History > 18th century.
United States > History > Revolution, 1775-1783 > Participation, African American.
Physical Description:xvi, 369 pages ; 24 cm
Format: Book
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.