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001			ocn144528333
003			OCoLC
005			20220719214036.0
008			070614s2006 nyuaf e b 001 0 eng d
010			_a 2005049504
040			_aVYM _beng _cVYM _dYDXCP _dAU@ _dOCLCF _dOCLCQ _dOCL _dOCLCA _dQT7 _dOCLCA _dOCL
020			_a9780060539160
020			_a006053916X
029			_aAU@ _b000028535103
035			_a(OCoLC)144528333
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050			_aE269.N3 _bS33 2006
082			_a326.0973/09033 _222
049			_aMAIN
100			_aSchama, Simon.
245			_aRough crossings : _bBritain, the slaves and the American Revolution / _cSimon Schama.
260			_aNew York : _bHarperCollins Publishers, _c2006.
300			_a478 pages, plates : _billustrations (some color) ; _c22 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 423-448) and index.
520			_aIn response to a declaration by the last royal governor of Virginia that any rebel-owned slave who escaped and served the King would be emancipated, tens of thousands of slaves--Americans who clung to the sentimental notion of British freedom--escaped from farms, plantations and cities to try to reach the British camp. This mass movement lasted as long as the war did, and a military strategy originally designed to break the plantations of the American South had unleashed one of the great exoduses in American history. Schama details the odyssey of the escaped blacks through the fires of war and the terror of potential recapture at the war's end, into inhospitable Nova Scotia, where thousands who had served the Crown were betrayed and, in a little-known hegira of the slave epic, sent across the broad, stormy ocean to Sierra Leone.--From publisher description .
505			_aBritish freedom's promise -- Part one: Greeny -- Part two: John -- Endings, beginnings.
590			_aNLJCols20082021
650			_aSlavery _zUnited States _xHistory _y18th century.
650			_aAntislavery movements _zUnited States _xHistory _y18th century.
650			_aAbolitionists _zUnited States.
650			_aFugitive slaves _zUnited States _xHistory _y18th century.
650			_aAfrican Americans _xColonization _zNova Scotia _xHistory _y18th century.
650			_aAfrican Americans _xColonization _zSierra Leone _xHistory _y18th century.
651			_aUnited States _xHistory _yRevolution, 1775-1783 _xPropaganda.
651			_aUnited States _xHistory _yRevolution, 1775-1783 _xAfrican Americans.
651			_aGreat Britain _xHistory _y1760-1789.
650			_aSlaven (arbeid) _2gtt
650			_aVluchtelingen. _2gtt
650			_aAmerikaanse Vrijheidsoorlog. _2gtt
650			_aAbolitionists. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst00794478
650			_aAfrican Americans. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst00799558
650			_aAfrican Americans _xColonization. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst00799587
650			_aAntislavery movements. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst00810800
650			_aFugitive slaves. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst00935940
650			_aPropaganda. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01078957
650			_aSlavery. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01120426
651			_aGreat Britain. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01204623
651			_aNova Scotia. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01206030
651			_aSierra Leone. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01210248
651			_aUnited States. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01204155
648			_a1700-1799 _2fast
655			_aHistory. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01411628
942			_cBK _h326.0973/09033
953			_aNLJDA _bNLJDA _pWI02333939G _pWI02333938R _cDDRR / RB _yBK
999			_c253013 _d253012