Negro comrades of the Crown
Subtitle: African Americans and the British Empire fight the U.S. before emancipation
By: Gerald Horne
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 361
ISBN-13: 9780814773499; 9780814790502; 9780814744635
Subjects: Relations with British; Resistance to Government; African Americans; Slavery; Relations; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: "Huzzah for Bermuda!"; title: "Base fools!"; title: Can U.S. Negroes commit treason?; title: The enslaved torments the slaveholder; title: "A powerful Negro army"; title: The British, Africans, and indigenes versus the U.S.; title: Revolutionary implications; title: Abolition of private property?; title: Africans flee from "republicanism"; title: London sanctions murder of U.S. slaveholders?; title: Britain to forge a Haiti in Texas?; title: Declare war on Britain to avert civil war in the U.S.?; title: Canada invades, or civil war in the U.S.; title: A paradise for U.S. Negroes in the British West Indies?