Countryman, Edward.

Enjoy the same liberty : Black Americans and the revolutionary era / Edward Countryman. - Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2012. - xxvi, 189 p. : ill., map ; 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 colonial people and the revolutionary crisis -- "The fruition of those blessings" : Black people in theemerging 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.

1442200286 : HRD $40.00 9781442200289

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Slavery--History--United States--18th century.
Antislavery movements--History--United States--18th century.
African Americans--History--To 1863.


United States--History--African Americans.--Revolution, 1775-1783
United States--History--Social aspects.--Revolution, 1775-1783

E269.N3 / C68 2012

973.30896