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Negro comrades of the Crown African Americans and the British Empire fight the U.S. before emancipation

Title: Negro comrades of the Crown [electronic resource] : African Americans and the British Empire fight the U.S. before emancipation / Gerald Horne.
Author: Horne, Gerald.
Publication: New York : New York University Press, c2012.

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1 online resource (v, 361 p.)

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Negro comrades of the Crown (Online)

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Negro comrades of the Crown (Online)

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Slave rebellions > United States > History > 19th century
African Americans > Relations with British > History > 19th century
Government, Resistance to > United States > History > 19th century
Slavery > United States > History > 19th century
United States > Relations > Great Britain
Great Britain > Relations > United States

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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?

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