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  1. Synopsis. Rough Crossings gives an account of the history of thousands of African-American slaves who escaped slavery in the American colonies to fight for the British cause during the American Revolutionary War.

    • Simon Schama
    • 2005
  2. Ubicado en el contexto de la Revolución Americana y sus secuelas, Rough Crossings es la historia apasionante y amargamente trágica de la lucha de los esclavos por la libertad. Schama sigue la terrible experiencia de los esclavos escapados en los incendios de la guerra, y luego en la inhóspita Nueva Escocia, donde fueron traicionados por la ...

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  3. 21 de mar. de 2014 · 45. 4.7K views 9 years ago Revolutionary History. Simon Schama discusses his book Rough Crossings, which turns on a single huge question: if you were black in America at the start of the...

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  4. 18 de nov. de 2010 · Rough crossings : Britain, the slaves, and the American Revolution : Schama, Simon : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive. by. Schama, Simon. Publication date. 2006. Topics. Slavery, Blacks, Sklaverei, Soziale Situation. Publisher. New York : Ecco. Collection.

  5. 28 de ago. de 2020 · Contributor. Internet Archive. Language. English. pages cm. In 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 ...

  6. 28 de abr. de 2009 · Rough Crossings: The Slaves, the British, and the American Revolution. Simon Schama. Harper Collins, Apr 28, 2009 - History - 512 pages. “The most dramatic account so far of the extraordinary...

  7. Rough Crossings opens and closes with a discussion of a black Loyalist who, after escaping slavery, chose to call himself British Freedom. This framing emphasizes that for many enslaved men and women in revolutionary America, “it was the royal, rather than republican, road, that seemed to offer a surer chance of liberty.”