Enjoy the same liberty : Black Americans and the revolutionary era /
Countryman, Edward.
Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield,
2014, c2012.
Originally published in hardcover in 2012.
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.
Slavery
Antislavery movements
African Americans