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Negro Comrades of the Crown : African Americans and the British Empire Fight the U.S. Before Emancipation /

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 t...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Horne, Gerald
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : New York University Press, 2012.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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  • "Huzzah for bermuda!"
  • "Base fools!"
  • Can U.S. Negroes commit treason?
  • The enslaved torments the slaveholder
  • "A powerful Negro army"
  • The British, Africans, and indigenes vs. the U.S.
  • Revolutionary implications
  • Abolition of private property
  • Africans flee from "republicanism"
  • London sanctions murder of U.S. slaveholders
  • Britain to forge a Haiti in Texas
  • Declare war on Britain to avert civil war in the U.S.
  • Canada invades; or civil war in the U.S.
  • A paradise for U.S. Negroes in the British West Indies.