The slaves' gamble
Subtitle: choosing sides in the War of 1812
By: Gene Allen Smith
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 257
ISBN-13: 9780230342088
Subjects: Race relations; African American Participation; African American soldiers; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-249) and index.
Table of contents: title: Black soldiers in North America: "Never of any use after they have carried arms"; title: Fighting in the north 1807-13 and on the seas: "Absolutely insensible to danger"; title: The Florida patriot war of 1812: "For freedom we want and will have"; title: Terror in the Chesapeake, 1813-14: "Negroes who were anxious to join us"; title: Washington, Baltimore, and other targets: "Our enemy at home"; title: War along the southern coasts, 1814: "That pride of distinction, which a soldier's pursuits so naturally inspire"; title: Different places, same results, 1815 and after: "They were in every sense of the word free men".