Black Patriots and Loyalists
Fighting for Emancipation in the War for Independence
by Alan Gilbert
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appears in Revolutions, History, and Nonfiction.
We commonly think of the American Revolution as simply the war for independence from British colonial rule. But, of course, that independence actually applied to only a portion of the American population?African Americans would still be bound in slavery for nearly another century. Alan Gilbert asks us to rethink what we know about the Revolutionary...
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appears in Revolutions, History, and Nonfiction.
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