Rough Crossings is the astonishing story of the struggle to freedom by thousands of African-American slaves who fled the plantations to fight behind British lines in the American War of Independence. With gripping, powerfully vivid story-telling, Simon Schama follows the escaped blacks into the fires of the war, and into freezing, inhospitable Nova Scotia where many who had served the Crown were betrayed in their promises to receive land at the war's end. Their fate became entwined with British abolitionists: inspirational figures such as Granville Sharp, the flute-playing father-figure of slave freedom, and John Clarkson, the 'Moses' of this great exodus, who accompanied the blacks on their final rough crossing to Africa, where they hoped that freedom would finally greet them.
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 31/08/2010
- ISBN:
- 9781409018629
- 9781409018629
- Category:
- History of the Americas
- Format:
- Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
- Publication Date:
- 31-08-2010
- Language:
- English
- Publisher:
- Random House
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National liberation & independence
Slavery & abolition of slavery
Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700
Colonialism & imperialism
Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900
General & world history
History of the Americas
Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500
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