Enjoy the same liberty
Subtitle: Black Americans and the revolutionary era
By: Edward Countryman
Series: The African American history series
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781442200289; 9781442200296
Subjects: Social aspects; History; African Americans; Antislavery movements; Slavery
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue : "proud of my country"; title: "Fire, fire, scorch, scorch" : enslaved Africans in the colonial world; title: "The same principle lives in us" : Black colonial people and the revolutionary crisis; title: "The fruition of those blessings" : Black people in the emerging republic; title: "Now our mother country ": Black Americans and the unfinished revolution; title: Epilogue : "you may rejoice, I must mourn" : slaves, free Americans, and the Fourth of July; title: Documents; title: Bibliographical essay.