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Negro comrades of the Crown

Horne, Gerald.

Negro comrades of the Crown African Americans and the British Empire fight the U.S. before emancipation / [electronic resource] : Gerald Horne. - New York : New York University Press, c2012. - 1 online resource (v, 361 p. ) - UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Huzzah for Bermuda!" -- "Base fools!" -- Can U.S. Negroes commit treason? -- The enslaved torments the slaveholder -- "A powerful Negro army" -- The British, Africans, and indigenes versus the U.S. -- Revolutionary implications -- Abolition of private property? -- Africans flee from "republicanism" -- London sanctions murder of U.S. slaveholders? -- Britain to forge a Haiti in Texas? -- Declare war on Britain to avert civil war in the U.S.? -- Canada invades, or civil war in the U.S. -- A paradise for U.S. Negroes in the British West Indies?

9780814790502


Slavery--History--United States--19th century.
Government, Resistance to--History--United States--19th century.
African Americans--Relations with British--History--19th century.


Great Britain--Relations--United States.
United States--Relations--Great Britain.
Slave insurrections--History--United States--19th century.


Electronic books.

E449 / .H799 2012

306.3/620973