Rough Crossings : Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution

Name: Rough Crossings
Brand: Vintage Publishing
SKU: 9780099536079
Price: 3800 KES
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ISBN: 9780099536079

by Simon Schama

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Format Paperback / softback

ISBN-10 0099536072

ISBN-13 9780099536079

Publisher Vintage Publishing

Imprint Vintage

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Apr 2nd, 2009

Print length 560 Pages

Weight 508 grams

Dimensions 20.10 x 12.60 x 3.40 cms

Product Classification: c 1500 onwards to present day History of the Americas Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900 Slavery & abolition of slavery American War of Independence History History of the Americas Slavery, enslaved persons and abolition of slavery Specific wars and military campaigns

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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.

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.

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