The first emancipator : the forgotten story of Robert Carter, the founding father who freed his slaves / by Levy, Andrew, 1962-

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Essays commercial and political, on the real and relative interests of imperial and dependent states, particularly those of Great Britain and her dependencies: displaying the proba...

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Essays commercial and political, on the real and relative interests of imperial and dependent states, particularly those of Great Britain and her dependencies : displaying the probable causes of, and a mode of compromising the present disputes between this country and her American colonies : to which is added, an appendix, on the means of emancipating slaves, without loss to their proprietors.

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Black patriots and loyalists : fighting for emancipation in the war for independence / by Gilbert, Alan

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: fear, hope, and the two revolutions in America -- Lord Dunmore, black insurrection, and the independence movement in Virginia and South Carolina -- Emancipation and revolution: the conjunction of pragmatism and principle -- The Laurens family and emancipation -- Black fighters for freedom: patriot recruitment and the two revolutions -- Black fighters for freedom: British recruitment and the two revolutions -- Black fighters in the two revolutions -- Honor in defeat -- Postwar black emigrations: the search for freedom and self-government -- Democratic internationalism and the seeds of freedom.…”

Negro comrades of the Crown : African Americans and the British Empire fight the U.S. before emancipation / by Horne, Gerald

By His Excellency the Right Honourable John Earl of Dunmore, His Majesty's lieutenant and governour-general of the colony and dominion of Virginia, and vice admiral of the same : a...

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The book of negroes : African Americans in exile after the American Revolution /

Subjects: “…Enslaved persons Emancipation United States History 18th century Sources.…”
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Africans in America.

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Africans in America.

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Africans in America.

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Observations on the slaves and the indented servants, inlisted in the army, and in the navy of the United States. by Antibiastes

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Africans in America.

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Death or liberty : African Americans and revolutionary America / by Egerton, Douglas R.

Table of Contents: “…The trials of William Lee: A life in the age of revolution -- Equiano's world: The British Atlantic Empire in 1763 -- Richard's cup: Slavery and the coming of the revolution -- The transformation of Colonel Tye: Black combatants and the war -- Quok Walker's suit: Emancipation in the North -- Absalom's "meritorious service" : Antislavery in the Upper South -- Captain Vesey's cargo: Continuity in Georgia and the Carolinas -- Mum Bett takes a name: The emergence of free Black communities -- Harry Washington's Atlantic crossings: The migrations of Black loyalists -- A suspicion only: Racism in the Early Republic -- Eli Whitney's cotton engine: Expansion and rebellion -- General Gabriel's flag: Unsuccessful coda to the revolution.…”
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The American Revolution reborn /

Table of Contents: “…Hsiung -- The problem of order and the transfer of slave property in the Revolutionary South / Matthew Spooner -- The United States and the transformation of transatlantic migration during the age of revolution and emancipation / Aaron Spencer Fogleman -- First partition : the troubled origins of the Mason-Dixon line / Edward G. …”

The expanding blaze : how the American Revolution ignited the world, 1775-1848 / by Israel, Jonathan I. 1946-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: The American Revolution and the origins of democratic modernity -- First rumblings -- A republican revolution -- Revolutionary constitutionalism and the Federal Union (1776-90) -- Schooling republicans -- Benjamin Franklin: "American icon"? -- Black emancipation: confronting slavery in the new republic -- Expropriating the Native Americans -- Whites dispossessed -- Canada: an ideological conflict -- John Adams's "American revolution" -- Jefferson's French revolution -- A tragic case: the Irish Revolution (1775-98) -- America's "conservative turn": the emerging "party system" in the 1790s -- America and the Haitian revolution -- Louisiana and the Principles of '76 -- A revolutionary era: Napoleon, Spain, and the Americas (1808-15) -- Reaction, radicalism, and Américanisme under "the Restoration" (1814-30) -- The Greek revolution (1770-1830) -- The Freedom-fighters of the 1830s -- The revolutions of 1848: Democratic Republicanism versus Socialism -- American reaction (1848-52) -- Conclusion: "Exceptionalism," populism, and the radical Enlightenment's demise.…”

The expanding blaze : how the American Revolution ignited the world, 1775-1848 / by Israel, Jonathan, 1946-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: The American Revolution and the origins of democratic modernity -- First rumblings -- A republican revolution -- Revolutionary constitutionalism and the Federal Union (1776-90) -- Schooling republicans -- Benjamin Franklin: "American icon"? -- Black emancipation: confronting slavery in the new republic -- Expropriating the Native Americans -- Whites dispossessed -- Canada: an ideological conflict -- John Adams's "American revolution" -- Jefferson's French revolution -- A tragic case: the Irish Revolution (1775-98) -- America's "conservative turn": the emerging "party system" in the 1790s -- America and the Haitian revolution -- Louisiana and the Principles of '76 -- A revolutionary era: Napoleon, Spain, and the Americas (1808-15) -- Reaction, radicalism, and Américanisme under "the Restoration" (1814-30) -- The Greek revolution (1770-1830) -- The Freedom-fighters of the 1830s -- The revolutions of 1848: Democratic Republicanism versus Socialism -- American reaction (1848-52) -- Conclusion: "Exceptionalism," populism, and the radical Enlightenment's demise.…”
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One nation divided by slavery : remembering the American Revolution while marching toward the Civil War / by Conlin, Michael F., 1968-

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Running from bondage : enslaved women and their remarkable fight for freedom in Revolutionary America / by Bell, Karen Cook

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"Pretends to be free" : runaway slave advertisements from Colonial and Revolutionary New York and New Jersey /

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Whose American Revolution was it? : historians interpret the founding / by Young, Alfred F., 1925-2012, Nobles, Gregory H.

Table of Contents: “…The Revolution of the Enslaved; 5. Emancipation's Fate in the Revolutionary Era; 6. The Founders' Failures on Slavery; III. …”
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