Enjoy the same liberty : Black Americans and the revolutionary era /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Countryman, Edward
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, [2012]
Series:	African American history series (Lanham, Md.)
Subjects:	United States > History > Revolution, 1775-1783 > African Americans. United States > History > Revolution, 1775-1783 > Social aspects. Slavery > United States > History > 18th century. Antislavery movements > United States > History > 18th century. African Americans > History > To 1863.

Table of 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
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