The Negro in the American Revolution

by Quarles, Benjamin

• ISBN13: 9780807846032
• ISBN10: 0807846031
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1996-09-01
• Publisher: Omohundro Inst of Early Amer

Summary

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 Quarles 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 portraying how those tumultuous years were experienced by Americans at all levels of society.

Table of Contents

Foreword	ix
Thad W. Tate
Introduction	xiii
Gary B. Nash
Preface	xxvii
Uncertain Trumpet	3	(16)
``Lord Dunmore's Ethiopian Regiment''	19	(14)
The Negro and the Rights of Man	33	(18)
Policy Reversal above the Potomac	51	(17)
Arms-Bearers for America	68	(26)
Behind the Man behind the Gun	94	(17)
The British and the Blacks	111	(23)
In the King's Service	134	(24)
Evacuation with the British	158	(24)
Heirs of the Same Promise	182	(19)
Bibliography	201	(24)
Index	225