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Countryman, Edward

Enjoy the same liberty Black Americans and the revolutionary era - Lanham Rowman & Littlefield 2012 - xxvi,189 p. 24 cm. - The African American history series . - African American history series (Lanham, Md.) .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 -- Documents -- Bibliographical essay.

ISBN: 9781442200289

Standard No.: 40020407865

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Slavery--History--United States--18th century.
Antislavery movements--History--United States--18th century.
African Americans--History--To 1863.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
United States--History--African Americans.--Revolution, 1775-1783
United States--History--Social aspects.--Revolution, 1775-1783

Dewey Class. No.: 973.30896 / CO-E