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Author Horne, Gerald.

Title Negro comrades of the Crown [electronic resource] : African Americans and the British Empire fight the U.S. before emancipation / Gerald Horne.

Imprint New York : New York University Press, c2012.

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 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description v, 361 p.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents "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?.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject African Americans -- Relations with British -- History -- 19th century.
Government, Resistance to -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Slavery -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Slave insurrections -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
United States -- Relations -- Great Britain.
Great Britain -- Relations -- United States.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780814773499 (cl acid-free paper)
9780814744635 (electronic bk.)
9780814790502 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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