Epic Journeys of Freedom: Runaway Slaves of the American Revolution and Their Global Quest for Liberty
by Cassandra Pybus
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During the American Revolution, thousands of slaves fled their masters to find freedom with the British. Having emancipated themselves--and with the rhetoric about the inalienable rights of free men ringing in their ears--these men and women struggled tenaciously to make liberty a reality in their own lives.Tags
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susanbooks Pybus offers a brilliant nonfiction account of the events in Hill's novel, as well as extending the story to penal colonies in Australia.
susanbooks Pybus complicates Hochschild's portrait of Granville Sharp & others involved in the founding of the Sierra Leone colony. These two excellent books go really well together. I'd advise reading Hochschild's first for the wider picture.
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Quite an excellent look at Revolutionary-era runaway slaves and their trials and tribulations after Yorktown. Pybus has done very good work here in reconstructing lives of folks whose lives are notoriously tricky to reconstruct, and in placing them in their own difficult post-Revolutionary contexts and settings, whether London, Nova Scotia, Sierra Leone, or even Australia. Great research, put to very good use.
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Cassandra Pybus is Australian Research Council Professorial Fellow in History at the University of Sydney
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- Important places
- Australia; New South Wales, Australia
- Important events
- American Revolution (1775 | 1783)
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- Genres
- History, Nonfiction, General Nonfiction, Politics and Government, Biography & Memoir
- DDC/MDS
- 323.3 — Society, government, & culture Political science Civil Rights & Liberties/ Human Rights The state and social groups
- LCC
- E450 .P99 — History of the United States United States Revolution to the Civil War, 1775/1783-1861 Slavery in the United States. Antislavery
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- English
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