Free Download Justin Iverson, "Rebels in Arms: Black Resistance and the Fight for Freedom in the Anglo-Atlantic "
English | ISBN: 0820362808 | 2022 | 320 pages | EPUB | 4 MB
Enslaved Black people took up arms and fought in nearly every colonial conflict in early British North America. They sometimes served as loyal soldiers to protect and promote their owners' interests in the hope that they might be freed or be rewarded for their service. But for many Black combatants, war and armed conflict offered an opportunity to attack the chattel slave system itself and promote Black emancipation and freedom.
In six cases, starting in 1676 with Nathaniel Bacon's Rebellion in Virginia and ending in 1865 with the First South Carolina Volunteer Infantry Regiment near Charleston,
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