ISBN:
9780814790502
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081479050X
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9780814744635
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081474463X
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (v, 361 p.)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Horne, Gerald Negro comrades of the Crown
DDC:
306.3620973
Keywords:
Slave insurrections History
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19th century
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United States
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African Americans Relations with British
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History
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19th century
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Government, Resistance to History
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19th century
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United States
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Slavery History
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19th century
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United States
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African Americans Relations with British 19th century
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History
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Government, Resistance to History 19th century
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Slavery History 19th century
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Slave insurrections History 19th century
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International relations
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Slave insurrections
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Slavery
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African Americans ; Relations with British
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Government, Resistance to
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Slavery
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Ethnic Studies ; African American Studies
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History
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United States Relations
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Great Britain
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Great Britain Relations
;
United States
;
Great Britain
;
United States
;
United States Relations
;
Great Britain Relations
;
Great Britain
;
United States
;
Electronic books
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Electronic books History
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
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
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