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Rough Crossings - Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution (Paperback)
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Rough Crossings - Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution (Paperback)
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List price R578
Loot Price R526
Discovery Miles 5 260
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Rough Crossings is the astonishing story of the struggle to freedom
by thousands of African-American slaves who fled the plantations to
fight behind British lines in the American War of Independence.
With gripping, powerfully vivid story-telling, Simon Schama follows
the escaped blacks into the fires of the war, and into freezing,
inhospitable Nova Scotia where many who had served the Crown were
betrayed in their promises to receive land at the war's end. Their
fate became entwined with British abolitionists: inspirational
figures such as Granville Sharp, the flute-playing father-figure of
slave freedom, and John Clarkson, the 'Moses' of this great exodus,
who accompanied the blacks on their final rough crossing to Africa,
where they hoped that freedom would finally greet them.
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