Death or Liberty: African Americans and Revolutionary America

by Douglas R. Egerton

Book Overview

In Death or Liberty, Douglas R. Egerton offers a sweeping chronicle of African American history stretching from Britain's 1763 victory in the Seven Years' War to the election of slaveholder Thomas Jefferson as president in 1800. While American slavery is usually identified with antebellum
cotton plantations, Egerton shows that on the eve of the Revolution it encompassed everything from wading in the South Carolina rice fields to carting goods around...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195306694
• ISBN13: 9780195306699
• Release Date: January 2009
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.5" x 9.1"