Rough crossings: Britain, the slaves and the American Revolution
(Book)
Rough Crossings turns on a single huge question: if you were black in America at the start of the Revolutionary War, whom would you want to win? In response to a declaration by the last 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.
Notes
Schama, S. (2007). Rough crossings: Britain, the slaves and the American Revolution. 1st Harper Perennial edition. New York, Perennial.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Schama, Simon. 2007. Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution. New York, Perennial.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Schama, Simon, Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution. New York, Perennial, 2007.
MLA Citation (style guide)Schama, Simon. Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution. 1st Harper Perennial edition. New York, Perennial, 2007.
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