The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832
Frederick Douglass recalled that slaves living along Chesapeake Bay longingly viewed sailing ships as freedom's swift-winged angels. In 1813 those angels appeared in the bay as British warships coming to punish the Americans for declaring war on the empire. Over many nights, hundreds of slaves paddled out to the warships seeking protection for their families from the ravages of slavery. The runaways pressured the British admirals into becoming liberators. As guides, pilots, sailors, and marines, the former slaves used their intimate knowledge of the countryside to transform the war. They enabled the British to escalate their onshore attacks a…
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- ISBN: 978-0-393-34973-3
- EAN: 9780393349733
- Produktnummer: 15893618
- Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
- Seitenangabe: 624 S.
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Alan Taylor has twice won the Pulitzer Prize in History, most recently for The Internal Enemy, also a National Book Award finalist. He is Thomas Jefferson Foundation Professor of History at University of Virginia, and lives in Charlottesville.
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