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Freedom Given or Freedom Taken? Britain, the American Revolution, and the Black Loyalists

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SchamaSimon, Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution. London: BBC Books, 2005. 448 pp. ISBN: 0-563-48709-7 (hbk.).

PybusCassandra, Epic Journeys of Freedom: Runaway Slaves of the American Revolution and the Global Quest for Liberty. Foreword by Ira Berlin. Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 2005. xxii + 281 pp. ISBN: 0-8070-5514-X (hbk.).

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 April 2010

Andrew M. Schocket
Affiliation:
Bowling Green State University

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Copyright © Research Institute for History, Leiden University 2006

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Notes

1 Nash, Gary B., ‘Thomas Peters: Millwright and Deliverer’, in Sweet, David G. and Nash, Gary B., eds, Struggle and Survival in Colonial America (Berkeley, CA, University of California Press, 1981), 6985.Google Scholar

2 Pybus, Cassandra, ‘Jefferson's Faulty Math: The Question of Slave Defections in the American Revolution’, William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd ser., 62/2 (2005), 243264.Google Scholar