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. |
Contents
NegroesBritish in Their Hearts? | 1 |
Huzzah for Bermuda | 17 |
Base Fools | 29 |
Can U S Negroes Commit Treason? | 43 |
The Enslaved Torments the Slaveholder | 54 |
A Powerful Negro Army | 66 |
The British Africans and Indigenes versus the U S | 78 |
Revolutionary Implications | 90 |
London Sanctions Murder of U S Slaveholders? | 133 |
Britain to Forge a Haiti in Texas? | 148 |
Declare War on Britain to Avert Civil War in the U S ? | 164 |
Canada Invadesor Civil War in the U S ? | 179 |
A Paradise for U S Negroes in the British West Indies? | 197 |
Notes | 217 |
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About the Author | 361 |