Author: Egerton, Douglas R.
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Death or Liberty: African Americans and Revolutionary America
Price: $9.98
Publisher: Oxford University Press : January 2009
Seller ID: 153838
ISBN-13: 9780195306699
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: New
In Death or Liberty, Douglas R. Egerton offers a sweeping chronicle of African American history stretching from Britain's 1763 victory in the Seven Years' War to the election of slaveholder Thomas Jefferson as president in 1800. While American slavery is usually identified with antebellum cotton plantations, Egerton shows that on the eve of the Revolution it encompassed everything from wading in the South Carolina rice fields to carting goods around Manhattan to serving the households of Boston's elite. More important, he recaptures the drama of slaves, freed blacks, and white reformers fighti...
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Death or Liberty: African Americans and Revolutionary America
Price: $9.98
Publisher: Oxford University Press : January 2009
Seller ID: 154471
ISBN-13: 9780195306699
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: New
In Death or Liberty, Douglas R. Egerton offers a sweeping chronicle of African American history stretching from Britain's 1763 victory in the Seven Years' War to the election of slaveholder Thomas Jefferson as president in 1800. While American slavery is usually identified with antebellum cotton plantations, Egerton shows that on the eve of the Revolution it encompassed everything from wading in the South Carolina rice fields to carting goods around Manhattan to serving the households of Boston's elite. More important, he recaptures the drama of slaves, freed blacks, and white reformers fighti...
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