- Slavery, History, Antislavery movements, Abolitionists
In response to a declaration by the last royal governor of Virginia that any rebel-owned slave who escaped and served the King would be emancipated, tens of thousands of slaves--Americans who clung to the sentimental notion of British freedom--escaped from farms, plantations and cities to try to reach the British camp.
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Grave, earnest, classical in form and epic.
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- intimateepic
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Simon Schama, Simon Schama
- First published
- 2006
- Pages
- 478
- Publisher
- Bbc Books, Harper Perennial, HarperAudio
- Editions
- 17
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781409018636
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