Enjoy the same liberty : Black Americans and the revolutionary era / Edward Countryman.

Author
Countryman, Edward [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
  • Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, [2012]
  • ©2012.
Description
xxvi, 189 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

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    In this cohesive narrative, Edward Countryman explores the American Revolution in the context of the African American experience, asking a question that blacks have raised since the Revolution: What does the revolutionary promise of freedom and democracy mean for African Americans? Countryman, a Bancroft Prize-winning historian, draws on extensive research and primary sources to help him answer this question. He emphasizes the agency of blacks and explores the immense task facing slaves who wanted freedom, as well as looking at the revolutionary nature of abolitionist sentiment. Countryman focuses on how slaves remembered the Revolution and used its rhetoric to help further their cause of freedom.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    Contents
    • Prologue : "proud of my country"
    • "Fire, fire, scorch, scorch" : enslaved Africans in the colonial world
    • "The same principle lives in us" : Black people and the revolutionary crisis
    • "The fruition of those blessings" : Black people in the emerging republic
    • "Now our mother country ": Black Americans and the unfinished revolution
    • Epilogue : "you may rejoice, I must mourn" : slaves, free Americans, and the Fourth of July
    • Documents
    • Bibliographical essay.
    ISBN
    • 9781442200289 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
    • 1442200286 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
    LCCN
    2011033236
    OCLC
    698327988
    Other standard number
    • 99941530676
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