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The Promise of Freedom for Slaves Escaping in British Ships: The Emancipation Revolution, 1740-1807
The Promise of Freedom for Slaves Escaping in British Ships: The Emancipation Revolution, 1740-1807
The Promise of Freedom for Slaves Escaping in British Ships: The Emancipation Revolution, 1740-1807
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An uplifting work of black history in the context of the American War for Independence.

Although Africans and African Americans have been left out of most accounts of the Revolutionary years, this book pieces together their emerging path toward freedom. From Britain came the Great Awakening, the advent of evangelism in America, which would provide slaves with hope for future freedom. In 1775, black emancipation commenced in Chesapeake Bay with Lord Dunmore’s proclamation and the resulting fleet, which attracted blacks, creating the first mass emancipation of slaves in British colonial history. At the end of the War for Independence, the British evacuations of loyal subjects from 1782 to 1785 were the turning point in the Emancipation Revolution. A majority of free and enslaved blacks would remain where the Royal Navy transports landed them in Jamaica, the Bahamas, Nova Scotia, or Britain. Blacks’ love of freedom is concluded with the abolition of the slave trade throughout the British Empire.
LanguageEnglish
PublisherPen and Sword
Release dateMar 31, 2024
ISBN9781399048224
The Promise of Freedom for Slaves Escaping in British Ships: The Emancipation Revolution, 1740-1807
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Theodore Corbett

Theodore Corbett is a scholar of the American Revolutionary War, an interest which grew during a career in teaching at several universities. He has published the award-winning No Turning Point, The Saratoga Campaign in Perspective and two community studies of the war, Revolutionary New Castle and Revolutionary Chestertown. For this maritime history, he has done research at the Caird Library, National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, Archives Centre, The Maritime Museum of Liverpool and the New York Historical Society as a Gilder Lehrman Fellow. He resides on the Eastern Shore of Virginia.

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