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The Negro in the American Revolution

Title
The Negro in the American Revolution / by Benjamin Quarles.
Author
Quarles, Benjamin
Publication
  • Chapel Hill : Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia by University of North Carolina Press, [1961]
  • ©1961

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Institute of Early American History and Culture (Williamsburg, Va.)
Description
xiii, 231 pages : frontispiece; 24 cm
Summary
This classic work remains the most comprehensive history of the many and important roles played by African-Americans during the American Revolution. With this book, Benjamin Quarles added a new dimension to the military history of the Revolution and addressed for the first time the diplomatic repercussions created by the British evacuation of African Americans at the close of the war. The compelling narrative brings the Revolution to life by portraying how those tumultuous years were experienced by Americans at all levels of society.
Subjects
Genre/Form
History
Bibliography (note)
  • Bibliography: p. [201]-223.
Contents
Preface -- Uncertain trumpet -- "Lord Dunmore's Ethiopian Regiment" -- The negro and the rights of man -- Policy reversal above the Potomac -- Arms-bearers for America -- Behind the man behind the gun -- The British and the Blacks -- In the king's service -- Evacuation with the British -- Heirs of the same promise.
ISBN
  • 0807808334
  • 9780807808337
LCCN
61066795
OCLC
  • ocm00272669
  • 272669
  • SCSB-182496
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library