McBride, Robert Collins
180Arming Slaves in the American Revolutionphilip d. morgan andandrew jackson o’shaughnessyThe American Revolution occasioned major innovations in the militaryuse of slaves throughout the Atlantic world. The role of slaves in the Revolu-tionary War in North America is well known, but the tendency...
The growth of humanitarian feeling during the Age of Enlightenment in the 18th cent., the spread of the ideas of Jean JacquesRousseauand others, and the increase of democratic sentiment led to a growing attack on the slave trade. The French Revolution had a great effect not only in the spre...
Oertel seeks to bring new and interesting perspectives to the life and work of Harriet Tubman (1822-1913), the iconic woman who escaped from slavery, rescued dozens of other slaves through the Underground Railroad, served with the Union Army during the Civil War where she helped more than 700...
Define Freed slaves. Freed slaves synonyms, Freed slaves pronunciation, Freed slaves translation, English dictionary definition of Freed slaves. n. A man who has been freed from slavery. American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edi
1953, the President of Mexico Don Miguel Alemán, let Jackie and Jack use his villa. During their use of the Mexican President’s villa, Jackie wrote a poem about John her new husband. “He would find love He would never find peace For he must go seeking The Golden Fleece.” (A ...
This dissertation examines and reconstructs the lives of fugitive slaves who used the maritime industries in New York, Philadelphia and Newport to achieve freedom. It focuses on slaves during the period between 1713, the end of Queen Anne's War, and 1783, the end of the American Revolution. ...
the Russia-Ukraine Conflict, or even starve millions of Chinese peasants for fun during Great Leap Forward, or torture to death tens of millions Chinese intellectuals during the Great Proletariat Cultural Revolution, or even to willingly sacrifice the lives of hundreds of millions of Chinese living ...
Colonel during the Revolution, serving as Assistant Secretary of War from 1781 to 1783. As a member of the New York Assembly from 1789 to 1790, he introduced a bill for the gradual abolition of slavery. He was president of the N...
Epic Journeys of Freedom relates previously untold narratives of African Americans who struggled for their own independence during the American Revolution. In contrast to Benjamin Quarles, who also studied slaves who ran away to the British in his still-relevant book, The Negro in the American Revol...