Benjamin Quarles (1904–1996)

In The Negro in the Making of America, eminent historian Benjamin Quarles provides one of the most comprehensive and
readable accounts ever gathered in one volume of the role that African Americans have played in shaping the destiny of America.
Starting with the arrival of the slave ships in the early 1600s and moving through the Colonial period, the Revolutionary and Civil Wars,
and into the last half of the twentieth century, Quarles chronicles the sweep of events that have brought blacks show more and their struggle
for social and economic equality to the forefront of American life. show less

Originally published by UNC Press in 1961, this classic work remains the most comprehensive history of the many and important roles played by African Americans during the American Revolution. With this book, Benjamin Quales added a new dimension to the military history of the Revolution and addressed for the first time the diplomatic repercussions created by the British evacuation of African Americans at the close of the war. the compelling narrative brings the Revolution to life by show more portraying how those tumultuous years were experienced by Americans at all levels of society. show less