Description
| Product ID: | 9780099536079 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Rough Crossings |
| Subtitle: | Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution |
| Authors: | Author: Simon, CBE Schama |
| Page Count: | 560 |
| Subjects: | General and world history, General & world history, History of the Americas, History, History, Colonialism and imperialism, National liberation and independence, Slavery and abolition of slavery, History of the Americas, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, Colonialism & imperialism, National liberation & independence, post-colonialism, Slavery & abolition of slavery |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Rough Crossings is the astonishing story of the struggle to freedom by thousands of African-American slaves who fled the plantations to fight behind British lines in the American War of Independence. Rough Crossings is the astonishing story of the struggle to freedom by thousands of African-American slaves who fled the plantations to fight behind British lines in the American War of Independence. With gripping, powerfully vivid story-telling, Simon Schama follows the escaped blacks into the fires of the war, and into freezing, inhospitable Nova Scotia where many who had served the Crown were betrayed in their promises to receive land at the war''s end. Their fate became entwined with British abolitionists: inspirational figures such as Granville Sharp, the flute-playing father-figure of slave freedom, and John Clarkson, the ''Moses'' of this great exodus, who accompanied the blacks on their final rough crossing to Africa, where they hoped that freedom would finally greet them. |
| Imprint Name: | Vintage |
| Publisher Name: | Vintage Publishing |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2009-04-02 |
