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Enjoy the same liberty : Black Americans and the revolutionary era / Edward Countryman.
Author
Countryman, Edward
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Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, [2012]
©2012.
Description
xxvi, 189 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
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Firestone Library - Stacks
E269.N3 C68 2012
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Subject(s)
Slavery
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United States
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History
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18th century
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Antislavery movements
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United States
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History
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18th century
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African Americans
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History
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To 1863
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United States
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History
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Revolution, 1775-1783
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African Americans
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United States
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History
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Revolution, 1775-1783
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Social aspects
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Series
African American history series (Lanham, Md.)
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The African American history series
Summary note
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.
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ISBN
9781442200289 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
1442200286 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
LCCN
2011033236
OCLC
698327988
Other standard number
99941530676
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