Negro Comrades of the Crown: African Americans and the British Empire Fight the U.S. Before EmancipationWhile it is well known that more Africans fought on behalf of the British than with the successful patriots of the American Revolution, Gerald Horne reveals in his latest work of historical recovery that after 1776, Africans and African-Americans continued to collaborate with Great Britain against the United States in battles big and small until the Civil War. |
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3 Can US Negroes Commit Treason? | 43 |
4 The Enslaved Torments the Slaveholder | 54 |
5 A Powerful Negro Army | 66 |
6 The British Africans and Indigenes versus the US | 78 |
7 Revolutionary Implications | 90 |
10 London Sanctions Murder of US Slaveholders? | 133 |
11 Britain to Forge a Haiti in Texas? | 148 |
12 Declare War on Britain to Avert Civil War in the US? | 164 |
13 Canada Invadesor Civil War in the US? | 179 |
14 A Paradise for US Negroes in the British West Indies? | 197 |
Notes | 217 |
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About the Author | 361 |