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001 2005049504
003 DLC
005 20130523090821.0
008 050907s2006 nyuabf b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2005049504
020 $a006053916X
020 $a9780060539160
035 $a(OCoLC)ocm61652611
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050 00 $aE269.N3$bS33 2006
082 00 $a326.0973/09033$222
100 1 $aSchama, Simon.
245 10 $aRough crossings :$bBritain, the slaves, and the American Revolution /$cSimon Schama.
250 $a1st U.S. ed.
260 $aNew York :$bEcco,$c2006.
300 $axiv, 478 p., [16] p. of plates :$bill. (some col.), map ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [423]-451) and index.
505 0 $aBritish freedom's promise -- Part one: Greeny -- Part two: John -- Endings, beginnings.
520 $aIn response to a declaration by the last royal governor of Virginia that any rebel-owned slave who escaped and served the King would be emancipated, tens of thousands of slaves--Americans who clung to the sentimental notion of British freedom--escaped from farms, plantations and cities to try to reach the British camp. This mass movement lasted as long as the war did, and a military strategy originally designed to break the plantations of the American South had unleashed one of the great exoduses in American history. Schama details the odyssey of the escaped blacks through the fires of war and the terror of potential recapture at the war's end, into inhospitable Nova Scotia, where thousands who had served the Crown were betrayed and, in a little-known hegira of the slave epic, sent across the broad, stormy ocean to Sierra Leone.--From publisher description.̓
651 0 $aUnited States$xHistory$yRevolution, 1775-1783$xAfrican Americans.
651 0 $aUnited States$xHistory$yRevolution, 1775-1783$xSocial aspects.
650 0 $aSlavery$zUnited States$xHistory$y18th century.
650 0 $aBlacks$zEngland$xHistory$y18th century.
856 42 $3Contributor biographical information$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1308/2005049504-b.html