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Death or Liberty - African Americans and Revolutionary America (Paperback)
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Death or Liberty - African Americans and Revolutionary America (Paperback)
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In Death or Liberty, Douglas R. Egerton offers a sweeping chronicle
of African American history stretching from Britain's 1763 victory
in the Seven Years' War to the election of slaveholder Thomas
Jefferson as president in 1800. While American slavery is usually
identified with antebellum cotton plantations, Egerton shows that
on the eve of the Revolution it encompassed everything from wading
in the South Carolina rice fields to carting goods around Manhattan
to serving the households of Boston's elite. More important, he
recaptures the drama of slaves, freed blacks, and white reformers
fighting to make the young nation fulfill its republican slogans.
Although this struggle often unfolded in the corridors of power,
Egerton pays special attention to what black Americans did for
themselves in these decades, and his narrative brims with
compelling portraits of forgotten African American activists and
rebels, who battled huge odds and succeeded in finding liberty--if
never equality--only in northern states. Egerton concludes that
despite the real possibility of peaceful, if gradual, emancipation,
the Founders ultimately lacked the courage to end slavery.
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