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Call Words: GEN HISTORY 1775-1783 AFRICAN-A EGE
Location: MAIN LIBRARY
Item Type: Book
Title: Death or liberty : African Americans and revolutionary America / Douglas R. Egerton
Author: Egerton, Douglas R
Publication Info: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
Physical Desc: x, 342 p. : ill., maps, ports. ; 24 cm.
Bibliographic Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. [283]-332) and index.
Contents: Prologue. The trials of William Lee : a life in the age of revolution -- Equiano's world : the British Atlantic empire in 1763 -- Richard's cup : slavery and the coming of the revolution -- The transformation of Colonel Tye : Black combatants and the war -- Quok Walker's suit : emancipation in the North -- Absalom's "meritorious service" : antislavery in the Upper South -- Captain Vesey's cargo : continuity in Georgia and the Carolinas -- Mum Bett takes a name : the emergence of free Black communities -- Harry Washington's Atlantic crossings : the migrations of Black loyalists -- A suspicion only : racism in the early republic -- Eli Whitney's cotton engine : expansion and rebellion -- General Gabriel's flag : unsuccessful coda to the revolution.
Donation Note: From Jane Johnson
Subject: African Americans--History--18th century
Slavery--History--18th century--United States
Subject: United States--History--African Americans--Revolution, 1775-1783


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