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Black Patriots and Loyalists (Paperback)
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Black Patriots and Loyalists (Paperback)
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Loot Price R567
Discovery Miles 5 670
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We commonly think of the American Revolution as simply the war for
independence from British colonial rule. But, of course, that
independence actually applied to only a portion of the American
population - African Americans would still be bound in slavery for
nearly another century. Alan Gilbert asks us to rethink what we
know about the Revolutionary War, to realize that while white
Americans were fighting for their freedom, many black Americans
were joining the British imperial forces to gain theirs. Further, a
movement led by sailors - both black and white - pushed strongly
for emancipation on the American side. There were actually two wars
being waged at once: a political revolution for independence from
Britain and a social revolution for emancipation and equality.
Gilbert presents persuasive evidence that slavery could have been
abolished during the Revolution itself if either side had fully
pursued the military advantage of freeing slaves and pressing them
into combat, and his extensive research also reveals that free
blacks on both sides played a crucial and under appreciated role in
the actual fighting. Black Patriots and Loyalists contends that the
struggle for emancipation was not only basic to the Revolution
itself, but was a rousing force that would inspire freedom
movements like the abolition societies of the North and the black
loyalist pilgrimages for freedom in Nova Scotia and Sierra Leone.
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