Slaves in Red Coats
Title | Slaves in Red Coats PDF eBook |
Author | Roger Norman Buckley |
Publisher | |
Pages | 210 |
Release | 1979-01-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780300022162 |
Buckley's acute analysis shows how the creation of a large body of slave soldiers caused dramatic modifications in the social order. To avoid conflict with police regulations, for example, it was necessary in 1807 for Parliament to manumit 10,000 military slaves by a single act. Slaves in Red Coats is the first systematic analysis of the effect of war on New World slavery.
Black Redcoats
Title | Black Redcoats PDF eBook |
Author | Matthew Taylor |
Publisher | Pen and Sword Military |
Pages | 305 |
Release | 2024-05-30 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1399034030 |
Tells the story of the thousands of enslaved African Americans who fled to British forces during the war in what became the largest emancipation of enslaved Americans until the abolition of slavery in the United States. During the Anglo-American War of 1812, British forces launched hundreds of amphibious raids on the United States. The richest parts of the United States were slave-states, and thousands of enslaved African Americans fled to British forces in what was to be the largest emancipation of enslaved Americans until the abolition of slavery in the USA. From these refugees from slavery, the British built a force - the Corps of Colonial Marines. Black redcoats, they were a fusion of two great American fears, the return of the British King and an uprising by their own oppressed slaves. The Corps of Colonial Marines turned Britain's campaign on America's coasts from one of harassment to one of existential threat to the new nation. Although small in number, the Colonial Marines - fighting to liberate their own families as much as for Great Britain - exerted a massive psychological impact on the United States which paralysed American resistance with fear of a widespread slave uprising, and allowed British forces in the Chesapeake to burn down Washington DC. As well as examining this little-remembered part of British military and African-American history, this book will also look to the post-war history of the Colonial Marines, their continued survival as a unique ethnic group in the Caribbean today, and their involvement in the largest act of armed African-American resistance to slavery. The "Battle of Negro Fort" in 1816 was the only time American forces left American territory to destroy a fugitive slave community - a community led by former Colonial Marines who, when faced with American attack, raised the British flag. This book brings black history to the fore of the War of 1812, and gives a voice to those enslaved people who - amidst great power competition between a slave-holding Republic and a slave-holding Empire demonstrated exceptional bravery and initiative to gain precious freedom for themselves and their descendants.
Arming Slaves
Title | Arming Slaves PDF eBook |
Author | Christopher Leslie Brown |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Pages | 384 |
Release | 2008-10-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0300134851 |
Arming slaves as soldiers is a counterintuitive idea. Yet throughout history, in many varied societies, slaveholders have entrusted slaves with the use of deadly force. This book is the first to survey the practice broadly across space and time, encompassing the cultures of classical Greece, the early Islamic kingdoms of the Near East, West and East Africa, the British and French Caribbean, the United States, and Latin America. To facilitate cross-cultural comparisons, each chapter addresses four crucial issues: the social and cultural facts regarding the arming of slaves, the experience of slave soldiers, the ideological origins and consequences of equipping enslaved peoples for battle, and the impact of the practice on the status of slaves and slavery itself. What emerges from the book is a new historical understanding: the arming of slaves is neither uncommon nor paradoxical but is instead both predictable and explicable.
The Red Coats
Title | The Red Coats PDF eBook |
Author | Ann Sophia Stephens |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 1848 |
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The Red Coats, Or, The Sack of Unquowa
Title | The Red Coats, Or, The Sack of Unquowa PDF eBook |
Author | Charles F. Sterling |
Publisher | |
Pages | 111 |
Release | 1847 |
Genre | Connecticut |
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Rebels and Redcoats: The American Revolutionary War
Title | Rebels and Redcoats: The American Revolutionary War PDF eBook |
Author | Hugh Bicheno |
Publisher | HarperCollins UK |
Pages | 256 |
Release | 2014-01-30 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0007390912 |
Due to the level of detail, maps are best viewed on a tablet. Controversial and revisionist history of America’s first civil war. Published with hugely successful accompanying four-part BBC TV series – written and presented by star military historian, Richard Holmes.
Montanye, Or, The Slavers of Old New York
Title | Montanye, Or, The Slavers of Old New York PDF eBook |
Author | William O. Stoddard |
Publisher | |
Pages | 364 |
Release | 1901 |
Genre | New York (N.Y.) |
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