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Death or Liberty: African Americans and Revolutionary America

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Death or Liberty: African Americans and Revolutionary America - Egerton, Douglas R
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This panoramic history of African Americans in colonial America ranges from the Seven Years' War to the election of Jefferson in 1800. Egerton pays special attention to what black Americans did for themselves in these decades, and his narrative brims with compelling portraits of forgotten African American activists and rebels, who battled huge odds and succeeded in finding liberty--if never equality--only in northern states. Egerton concludes that despite the real possibility of peaceful, if gradual, emancipation, the ...

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Death or Liberty: African Americans and Revolutionary America 2011, Oxford University Press, USA

ISBN-13: 9780199782253

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Death or Liberty: African Americans and Revolutionary America 2009, Oxford University Press, USA, Oxford, England

ISBN-13: 9780195306699

Hardcover