Rough Crossings: The Slaves, the British, and the American Revolution
Autor Simon Schamaen Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 apr 2007
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 emancpated, tens of thousands of blacks voted with feet, escaping to fight beside the British. Originally designed to break the plantations of the American South, this military strategy instead unleashed one of the great exoduses in American history.
Told in the voices of the slaves and the white abolitionists who aided them, Simon Schama vividly details the odyssey of these escaped blacks, shedding light on an extraordinary chapter in America’s birth.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780060539177
ISBN-10: 0060539178
Pagini: 512
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 33 mm
Greutate: 0.63 kg
Ediția:Reprint
Editura: HarperCollins Publishers
Colecția Ecco
ISBN-10: 0060539178
Pagini: 512
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 33 mm
Greutate: 0.63 kg
Ediția:Reprint
Editura: HarperCollins Publishers
Colecția Ecco
Textul de pe ultima copertă
If you were black in America at the start of the Revolutionary War, which side would you want to win?
When the last British governor of Virginia declared that any rebel-owned slave who escaped and served the king would be emancipated, tens of thousands of slaves fled from farms, plantations, and cities to try to reach the British camp. A military strategy originally designed to break the plantations of the American South had unleashed one of the great exoduses in U.S. history. With powerfully vivid storytelling, Schama details the odyssey of the escaped blacks through the fires of war and the terror of potential recapture, shedding light on an extraordinary, little-known chapter in the dark saga of American slavery.
When the last British governor of Virginia declared that any rebel-owned slave who escaped and served the king would be emancipated, tens of thousands of slaves fled from farms, plantations, and cities to try to reach the British camp. A military strategy originally designed to break the plantations of the American South had unleashed one of the great exoduses in U.S. history. With powerfully vivid storytelling, Schama details the odyssey of the escaped blacks through the fires of war and the terror of potential recapture, shedding light on an extraordinary, little-known chapter in the dark saga of American slavery.
Recenzii
“A master storyteller.” — Newsweek
“If there’s a better living writer of history than Simon Schama, I’d sure like to know who it is.” — Cleveland Plain Dealer
“. . .plenty of gorgeous writing from this most elegant of stylists.” — Christian Science Monitor
“Schama tells this complex story through a series of richly drawn, idiosyncratic individuals, from musical bureaucrats to rebellious slaves.” — San Diego Union-Tribune
Simon Schama’s Rough Crossings . . . brilliantly re-creates the histories of runaway slaves in and after the American revolution. — Sunday Times (London)
“A lively and accessible book.” — Newsday
” Schama is back at his best -and historians don’t come much better than that. — Sunday Times (London)
“If there’s a better living writer of history than Simon Schama, I’d sure like to know who it is.” — Cleveland Plain Dealer
“. . .plenty of gorgeous writing from this most elegant of stylists.” — Christian Science Monitor
“Schama tells this complex story through a series of richly drawn, idiosyncratic individuals, from musical bureaucrats to rebellious slaves.” — San Diego Union-Tribune
Simon Schama’s Rough Crossings . . . brilliantly re-creates the histories of runaway slaves in and after the American revolution. — Sunday Times (London)
“A lively and accessible book.” — Newsday
” Schama is back at his best -and historians don’t come much better than that. — Sunday Times (London)
Notă biografică
Simon Schama is University Professor of Art History and History at Columbia University in New York. His award-winning books include Scribble, Scribble, Scribble; The American Future: A History; National Book Critics Circle Award winner Rough Crossings; The Power of Art; The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age; Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution; Dead Certainties (Unwarranted Speculations); Landscape and Memory; Rembrandt's Eyes; and the History of Britain trilogy. He has written and presented forty television documentary films for the BBC, PBS, and The History Channel, including the Emmy-winning Power of Art, on subjects that range from John Donne to Tolstoy.
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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.