LEADER 04291nam 2200685 a 450 001 9910457451803321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8147-9050-X 024 7 $a10.18574/9780814790502 035 $a(CKB)2550000000087209 035 $a(EBL)866221 035 $a(OCoLC)775441365 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000638984 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11439602 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000638984 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10598395 035 $a(PQKB)11720895 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001323768 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC866221 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse19841 035 $a(DE-B1597)547571 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780814790502 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL866221 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10531194 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000087209 100 $a20110721d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aNegro comrades of the Crown$b[electronic resource] $eAfrican Americans and the British Empire fight the U.S. before emancipation /$fGerald Horne 210 $aNew York $cNew York University Press$dc2012 215 $a1 online resource (368 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-4798-7639-9 311 $a0-8147-7349-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $a"Huzzah for Bermuda!" -- "Base fools!" -- Can U.S. Negroes commit treason? -- The enslaved torments the slaveholder -- "A powerful Negro army" -- The British, Africans, and indigenes versus the U.S. -- Revolutionary implications -- Abolition of private property? -- Africans flee from "republicanism" -- London sanctions murder of U.S. slaveholders? -- Britain to forge a Haiti in Texas? -- Declare war on Britain to avert civil war in the U.S.? -- Canada invades, or civil war in the U.S. -- A paradise for U.S. Negroes in the British West Indies?. 330 $aWhile it is well known that more Africans fought on behalf of the British than with the successful patriots of the American Revolution, Gerald Horne reveals in his latest work of historical recovery that after 1776, Africans and African-Americans continued to collaborate with Great Britain against the United States in battles big and small until the Civil War. Many African Americans viewed Britain, an early advocate of abolitionism and emancipator of its own slaves, as a powerful ally in their resistance to slavery in the Americas. This allegiance was far-reaching, from the Caribbean to outposts in North America to Canada. In turn, the British welcomed and actively recruited both fugitive and free African Americans, arming them and employing them in military engagements throughout the Atlantic World, as the British sought to maintain a foothold in the Americas following the Revolution. In this path-breaking book, Horne rewrites the history of slave resistance by placing it for the first time in the context of military and diplomatic wrangling between Britain and the United States. Painstakingly researched and full of revelations, Negro Comrades of the Crown is among the first book-length studies to highlight the Atlantic origins of the Civil War, and the active role played by African Americans within these external factors that led to it. Listen to a one hour special with Dr. Gerald Horne on the "Sojourner Truth" radio show. 606 $aAfrican Americans$xRelations with British$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aGovernment, Resistance to$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aSlavery$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aSlave insurrections$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century 607 $aUnited States$xRelations$zGreat Britain 607 $aGreat Britain$xRelations$zUnited States 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aAfrican Americans$xRelations with British$xHistory 615 0$aGovernment, Resistance to$xHistory 615 0$aSlavery$xHistory 615 0$aSlave insurrections$xHistory 676 $a306.3/620973 700 $aHorne$b Gerald$0850651 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910457451803321 996 $aNegro comrades of the Crown$92466436 997 $aUNINA