Epic Journeys of Freedom

by Pybus, Cassandra

• ISBN13: 9780807055144
• ISBN10: 080705514X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-02-01
• Publisher: Beacon Press

Summary

"During the American Revolution, thousands of slaves fled their masters to find freedom with the British. Epic Journeys of Freedom is the story of these runaways and the lives they made on four continents. Having emancipated themselves, 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."--BOOK JACKET.

Author Biography

Cassandra Pybus holds the Australian Research Council Chair of History at the University of Tasmania. An award-winning author who has written ten books, she is a frequent Fulbright professor and international fellow at American universities.

Table of Contents

Foreword	ix
Ira Berlin
Prologue	xiii
A Note on Sources	xix
PART I
Liberty or Death	3	(18)
Crossing over to Freedom's Shore	21	(16)
Marching to Catastrophe	37	(20)
Fleeing the Founding Fathers	57	(18)
PART II
Starving in the Streets of London	75	(14)
Bound for Australia's Fatal Shore	89	(14)
Relief for London's Black Poor	103	(20)
PART III
Recalcitrant Convicts in New South Wales	123	(16)
The Province of Freedom in Sierra Leone	139	(18)
At the End of the World in New South Wales	157	(12)
Promises Unfulfilled in Sierra Leone	169	(14)
In Bondage to This Tyrannous Crew	183	(20)
Epilogue	203	(4)
Acknowledgments	207	(2)
Appendix: Biographies of Significant Black Refugees	209	(12)
Notes	221	(32)
Sources	253	(18)
Index	271