While it is well known that more Africans fought on behalf of the
British than with the successful patriots of the American
Revolution, Gerald Horne reveals in his latest work of historical
recovery that after 1776, Africans and African-Americans continued
to collaborate with Great Britain against the United States in
battles big and small until the Civil War. Many African Americans
viewed Britain, an early advocate of abolitionism and emancipator
of its own slaves, as a powerful ally in their resistance to
slavery in the Americas. This allegiance was far-reaching, from the
Caribbean to outposts in North America to Canada. In turn, the
British welcomed and actively recruited both fugitive and free
African Americans, arming them and employing them in military
engagements throughout the Atlantic World, as the British sought to
maintain a foothold in the Americas following the Revolution. In
this path-breaking book, Horne rewrites the history of slave
resistance by placing it for the first time in the context of
military and diplomatic wrangling between Britain and the United
States. Painstakingly researched and full of revelations, Negro
Comrades of the Crown is among the first book-length studies to
highlight the Atlantic origins of the Civil War, and the active
role played by African Americans within these external factors that
led to it. Listen to a one hour special with Dr. Gerald Horne on
the "Sojourner Truth" radio show.
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