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020			_a9780060539160
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050	0	0	_aE269.N3 _bS33 2006
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100	1		_aSchama, Simon.
245	1	0	_aRough crossings : _bBritain, the slaves, and the American Revolution / _cSimon Schama.
250			_a1st U.S. ed.
260			_aNew York : _bEcco, _c2006.
300			_axiv, 478 p., [16] p. of plates : _bill. (some col.), map ; _c24 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [423]-451) and index.
505	0		_aBritish freedom's promise -- Part one: Greeny -- Part two: John -- Endings, beginnings.
520			_aIn response to a declaration by the last royal governor of Virginia that any rebel-owned slave who escaped and served the King would be emancipated, tens of thousands of slaves--Americans who clung to the sentimental notion of British freedom--escaped from farms, plantations and cities to try to reach the British camp. This mass movement lasted as long as the war did, and a military strategy originally designed to break the plantations of the American South had unleashed one of the great exoduses in American history. Schama details the odyssey of the escaped blacks through the fires of war and the terror of potential recapture at the war's end, into inhospitable Nova Scotia, where thousands who had served the Crown were betrayed and, in a little-known hegira of the slave epic, sent across the broad, stormy ocean to Sierra Leone.--From publisher description.Ì
651		0	_aUnited States _xHistory _yRevolution, 1775-1783 _xAfrican Americans.
651		0	_aUnited States _xHistory _yRevolution, 1775-1783 _xSocial aspects.
650		0	_aSlavery _zUnited States _xHistory _y18th century.
650		0	_aBlacks _zEngland _xHistory _y18th century.
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