Negro Comrades of the Crown: African Americans and the British Empire Fight the U.S. Before Emancipation

by Gerald Horne

Book Overview

While 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.

Many African Americans viewed Britain, an early advocate of abolitionism and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1479876399
• ISBN13: 9781479876396
• Release Date: July 2013
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 365 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.9"