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Author:
Horne, Gerald.
Title:
Negro comrades of the Crown : African Americans and the British empire fight the U.S. before emancipation / Gerald Horne.
Publisher:
New York University Press,
Copyright Date:
c2012
Description:
v, 361 p. ; 24 cm.
Subject:
Slave insurrections--United States--History--19th century.
African Americans--History--History--19th century.
Government, Resistance to--United States--History--19th century.
Slavery--United States--History--19th century.
United States--Relations--Great Britain.
Great Britain--Relations--United States.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
"Huzzah for bermuda!" -- "Base fools!" -- Can U.S. Negroes commit treason? -- The enslaved torments the slaveholder -- "A powerful Negro army" -- The British, Africans, and indigenes vs. the U.S. -- Revolutionary implications -- Abolition of private property -- Africans flee from "republicanism" -- London sanctions murder of U.S. slaveholders -- Britain to forge a Haiti in Texas -- Declare war on Britain to avert civil war in the U.S. -- Canada invades; or civil war in the U.S. -- A paradise for U.S. Negroes in the British West Indies.
ISBN:
081474463X (ebook)
9780814744635 (ebook)
081479050X (ebook)
9780814790502 (ebook)
0814773494 (cl : alk. paper)
9780814773499 (cl : alk. paper)
OCLC:
(OCoLC)724667484
LCCN:
2011028435
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

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