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100	1		_aSchama, Simon.
245	1	0	_aRough crossings : _bBritain, the slaves, and the American Revolution / _cSimon Schama.
250			_a1st U.S. ed.
260			_aLondon _bBBC Books _c2005
300			_a447 p _bill. (some col.), map ; _c24 cm.
500			_aGratis
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [423]-451) and index.
505	0		_aBritish freedom's promise -- Part one: Greeny -- Part two: John -- Endings, beginnings.
520			_aIn response to a declaration by the last royal governor of Virginia that any rebel-owned slave who escaped and served the King would be emancipated, tens of thousands of slaves--Americans who clung to the sentimental notion of British freedom--escaped from farms, plantations and cities to try to reach the British camp. This mass movement lasted as long as the war did, and a military strategy originally designed to break the plantations of the American South had unleashed one of the great exoduses in American history. Schama details the odyssey of the escaped blacks through the fires of war and the terror of potential recapture at the war's end, into inhospitable Nova Scotia, where thousands who had served the Crown were betrayed and, in a little-known hegira of the slave epic, sent across the broad, stormy ocean to Sierra Leone.--From publisher description.̓
650		0	_aSlavery _zUnited States
650		0	_aBlacks _zEngland _xHistory _y18th century.
651		0	_aUnited States _xHistory _yRevolution, 1775-1783 _xAfrican Americans.
651		0	_aUnited States _xHistory _yRevolution, 1775-1783 _xSocial aspects.
856	4	2	_3Contributor biographical information _uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1308/2005049504-b.html
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