The Book of Negroes: African Americans in Exile After the American Revolution - Softcover

 
9780823298808: The Book of Negroes: African Americans in Exile After the American Revolution
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0823298809 ISBN 13: 9780823298808
Verlag: Fordham University Press, 2021

Inhaltsangabe

Since publication of The Black Loyalist Directory in 1996, the primary component, The Book of Negroes, has become one of the most-cited of American Revolutionary primary sources. This new edition salutes The Book of Negroes by using the original title of this famous accounting of Black freedom. On the surface, The Book of Negroes is a laconic, ledger-style enumeration of 3,000 self-emancipated and free Blacks who departed as part of the British evacuation of Loyalists from New York City in the summer and fall of 1783 for Nova Scotia, England, Germany, and other parts of the world. Created under orders from Sir Guy Carleton (Lord Dorchester), Commander-in-Chief of British forces in North America, to placate an angry George Washington, Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army (USA), who regarded the Black Loyalists as fugitive slaves, The Book of Negroes is, as Alan Gilbert has observed, a "roll of honor."

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Graham Russell Gao Hodges (Edited By)
Graham Gao Hodges is George Dorland Langdon Jr. Professor of History and Africana and Latin American Studies at Colgate University.

Alan Edward Brown (Edited By)
Alan Edward Brown is an attorney in Minneapolis and Lieutenant in the U.S. Navy

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Verlag
Fordham University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2021
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0823298809
ISBN 13 
9780823298808
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
334
Herausgeber
Hodges Graham Russell Gao, Brown Alan Edward
Kontakt zum Hersteller
Mare Nostrum Group B.V.
gpsr@mare-nostrum.co.uk

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