Black Patriots and Loyalists: Fighting for Emancipation in the War for Independence Books author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning

author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning An Army at Dawn and two other superb books about World War II

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and reinterprets the vagaries of colonial politics to offer a thrilling response to one of our most vexing historical questions: How could a fledgling nation have defeated the most powerful war machine of the era

” Flavell traces their roots to modest beginnings at Langar Hall in rural Nottinghamshire and highlights the Georgian phenomenon of the politically involved aristocratic woman

Black Patriots and Loyalists: Fighting for Emancipation in the War for Independence Books author of the Pulitzer Prize–winningWe commonly think of the American Revolution as simply the war for independence from British colonial rule. But, of course, that independence actually applied to only a portion of the American populationAfrican Americans would still be bound in slavery for nearly another century. Alan Gilbert asks us to rethink what we know about the Revolutionary War, to realize that while white Americans were fighting for their freedom, many black Americans were