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The Promise of Freedom for Slaves Escaping in British Ships: The Emancipation Revolution, 1740-1807 - Couverture rigide

Corbett, Theodore

 
9781399048200: The Promise of Freedom for Slaves Escaping in British Ships: The Emancipation Revolution, 1740-1807
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 1399048201 ISBN 13 : 9781399048200
Editeur : Pen & Sword Maritime, 2024

Synopsis

"A strength of the book is Corbett's use of short biographic examples of free Blacks and abolitionists in each of the chapters to illustrate the chapter's point. Finding more of these stories will serve to expand our understanding of the lived experiences of the people who escaped slavery during the American Revolution and their subsequent lives." -The Northern Mariner

Although Africans and African Americans have been left out of most accounts of the Revolutionary years, this book pieces together their emerging path toward freedom. From Britain came the Great Awakening, the advent of evangelism in America, which would provide slaves with hope for future freedom. In 1775, black emancipation commenced in Chesapeake Bay with Lord Dunmore's proclamation and the resulting fleet, which attracted blacks, creating the first mass emancipation of slaves in British colonial history. At the end of the War for Independence, the British evacuations of loyal subjects from 1782 to 1785 were the turning point in the Emancipation Revolution. A majority of free and enslaved blacks would remain where the Royal Navy transports landed them in Jamaica, the Bahamas, Nova Scotia, or Britain. Blacks' love of freedom is concluded with the abolition of the slave trade throughout the British Empire.

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À propos de l'auteur

Theodore Corbett is a scholar of the American Revolutionary War, an interest which grew during a career in teaching at several universities. He has published the award-winning No Turning Point, The Saratoga Campaign in Perspective and two community studies of the war, Revolutionary New Castle and Revolutionary Chestertown. For this maritime history, he has done research at the Caird Library, National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, Archives Centre, The Maritime Museum of Liverpool and the New York Historical Society as a Gilder Lehrman Fellow. He resides on the Eastern Shore of Virginia.

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Éditeur
Pen & Sword Maritime
Date d'édition
2024
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1399048201
ISBN 13 
9781399048200
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
224
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Personne responsable
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