Rough Crossings : Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution

Name: Rough Crossings : Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution
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ISBN: 9780061137020

ISBN-10: 0061137022

ISBN-13: 9780061137020

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Authors: Simon Schama

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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…

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List price: $39.95
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Binding: Compact Disc
Size: 5.25" wide x 5.75" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English

Simon Schama is the author of The Embarrassment of Riches, Citizens, Landscape and Memory, and most recently, Rembrandt's Eyes. He is currently Old Dominion Professor of the Humanities at Columbia University. The second installment of his epic history of Britain is due to be published in April 2001.