Rough Crossings

Rough Crossings
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Publisher : Harper Perennial
Total Pages : 496
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ISBN-10 : 0060539178
ISBN-13 : 9780060539177
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Book Synopsis Rough Crossings by : Simon Schama

Download or read book Rough Crossings written by Simon Schama and published by Harper Perennial. This book was released on 2007-05-01 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you were black in America at the start of the Revolutionary War, which side would you want to win? When the last British governor of Virginia declared that any rebel-owned slave who escaped and served the king would be emancipated, tens of thousands of slaves fled from farms, plantations, and cities to try to reach the British camp. A military strategy originally designed to break the plantations of the American South had unleashed one of the great exoduses in U.S. history. With powerfully vivid storytelling, Schama details the odyssey of the escaped blacks through the fires of war and the terror of potential recapture, shedding light on an extraordinary, little-known chapter in the dark saga of American slavery.


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