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Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution
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Hardcover
from Ecco Pr (May 1, 2006)
9780060539160 | details & prices | 478 pages | 6.50 × 9.50 × 1.50 in. | 1.75 lbs | List price $29.95
About: In 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.
About: In 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.
from Ebury Pr (September 8, 2005)
9780563487098 | details & prices | 448 pages | 6.25 × 9.25 × 1.25 in. | 1.85 lbs | List price $35.25
About: Tells the 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.
About: Tells the 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.
Paperback
New edition from Ebury Pr (May 4, 2006)
9780563493655 | details & prices | 542 pages | 5.00 × 7.50 × 1.25 in. | 1.00 lbs | List price $14.80
About: Tells the 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.
About: Tells the 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.
CD/Spoken Word
Abridged edition from Harperaudio (May 1, 2006); titled "Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves, And the American Revolution"
9780061137020 | details & prices | 5.25 × 5.75 × 1.50 in. | 0.65 lbs | List price $39.95
About: Rough Crossings turns on a single huge question: if you were black in America at the start of the Revolutionary War, who would you want to win?
About: Rough Crossings turns on a single huge question: if you were black in America at the start of the Revolutionary War, who would you want to win?