Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution - Softcover

Schama, Simon

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0060539178 ISBN 13: 9780060539177

Publisher: Ecco, 2007

Synopsis

Paperback. Pub Date: 2007. Pages: 478 Publisher: Harper If you were black in America at the start of the Revolutionary War. Which side would you want to win When the last itish governor of Virginia declared that any rebel-owned slave who escaped and served the king would be emancipated. tens of thousands of slaves fled from farms. plantations. and cities to try to reach the itish camp. A military strategy originally designed to eak the plantations of the American South had unleashed one of the great exoduses in US history. With powerfully vivid storytelling. Schama details the odyssey of the escaped blacks through the fires of war and the terror of potential recapture. shedding light on an extraordinary. little-known chapter in the dark saga of American slavery.

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Review:

." . .plenty of gorgeous writing from this most elegant of stylists."--Christian Science Monitor

"Schama tells this complex story through a series of richly drawn, idiosyncratic individuals, from musical bureaucrats to rebellious slaves."--San Diego Union-Tribune

" Schama is back at his best -and historians don't come much better than that.--Sunday Times (London)

Simon Schama's Rough Crossings . . . brilliantly re-creates the histories of runaway slaves in and after the American revolution.--Sunday Times (London)

"If there's a better living writer of history than Simon Schama, I'd sure like to know who it is."--Cleveland Plain Dealer

"A lively and accessible book."--Newsday

"A master storyteller."--Newsweek

About the Author:

Simon Schama is University Professor of Art History and History at Columbia University in New York. His award-winning books include Scribble, Scribble, Scribble; The American Future: A History; National Book Critics Circle Award winner Rough Crossings; The Power of Art; The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age; Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution; Dead Certainties (Unwarranted Speculations); Landscape and Memory; Rembrandt's Eyes; and the History of Britain trilogy. He has written and presented forty television documentary films for the BBC, PBS, and The History Channel, including the Emmy-winning Power of Art, on subjects that range from John Donne to Tolstoy.

About this edition

• Publisher: Ecco
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0060539178
• ISBN 13: 9780060539177
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 512