The Negro in the American Revolution / Benjamin Quarles ; with a new foreword by Thad W. Tate and a new introduction by Gary B. Nash.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Quarles, Benjamin, author.

Contributor:

Institute of Early American History and Culture (Williamsburg, Va.)

Series:

Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--History--18th century.

African Americans.

United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--African Americans.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (266 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill, [North Carolina] ; London, [England] : Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, 1996.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Originally published in 1961, this classic work remains the most comprehensive history of the many and important roles played by African Americans during the American Revolution. With this book, Benjamin Quarles added a new dimension to the military history of the Revolution and addressed for the first time the diplomatic repercussions created by the British evacuation of African Americans at the close of the war. The compelling narrative brings the Revolution to life by portraying those tumultuous years as experienced by Americans at all levels of society. In an introduction, Gary B. Nash traces the evolution of scholarship on African Americans in the American Revolution from its early roots with William C. Nell to this groundbreaking study. Quarles's work not only reshaped our thinking about the black revolutionary experience but also invigorated the study of black history as we know it today. Thad W. Tate, in a foreword, pays tribute to the importance of this work and explains its continuing relevance.

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Foreword; Introduction; Preface; I. Uncertain Trumpet; II. ""Lord Dunmore's Ethiopian Regiment""; III. The Negro and the Rights of Man; IV. Policy Reversal above the Potomac; V. Arms-Bearers for America; VI. Behind the Man behind the Gun; VII. The British and the Blacks; VIII. In the King's Service; IX. Evacuation with the British; X. Heirs of the Same Promise; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; V; W; Y

Notes:

Originally published: 1961.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

979-88-908667-5-2

979-88-908667-6-9

1-4696-0054-4

OCLC:

966879734