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Death or liberty African Americans and revolutionary America /

Main Author: Egerton, Douglas R.
Format: Book
Language: English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
Physical Description: x, 342 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm.
Subjects:
African Americans -- History -- 18th century.
Slavery -- United States -- History -- 18th century.
United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- African Americans.
Table of Contents:
  • Prologue. The trials of William Lee : a life in the age of revolution
  • Equiano's world : the British Atlantic empire in 1763
  • Richard's cup : slavery and the coming of the revolution
  • The transformation of Colonel Tye : Black combatants and the war
  • Quok Walker's suit : emancipation in the North
  • Absalom's "meritorious service" : antislavery in the Upper South
  • Captain Vesey's cargo : continuity in Georgia and the Carolinas
  • Mum Bett takes a name : the emergence of free Black communities
  • Harry Washington's Atlantic crossings : the migrations of Black loyalists
  • A suspicion only : racism in the early republic
  • Eli Whitney's cotton engine : expansion and rebellion
  • General Gabriel's flag : unsuccessful coda to the revolution.

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