This is the story Simon Schama has to tell in his gripping new book, Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves, and the American Revolution, and it might seem a departure for the University Professor of history and art history. His numerous and highly acclaimed books range from the history of Dutch art and culture to a multivolume epic on the. With powerfully vivid storytelling, Schama details the odyssey of the escaped blacks through the fires of war and the terror of potential recapture at the war's end, into inhospitable Nova Scotia. Rough crossings: Britain, the slaves and the American Revolution Britain, the slaves and the American Revolution by Schama, Simon. strategy originally designed to break the plantations of the American South had unleashed one of the great exoduses in American history. Schama details the odyssey of the escaped blacks through the fires of.
Rough crossings by Simon Schama, , Ecco edition, in English - 1st U.S. ed. Simon Schama's book `Rough Crossings' is a case in point. It is the story of the slaves of the American patriots who were not included in the liberty that their masters fought for, or in the stirring phrases of the Declaration of Independence - slave The myths we create about our past to edify our young and swell our national pride are nearly. Historian Simon Schama has taken up that question in his new book, Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves, and the American Revolution. In , Schama writes, 'the journey to freedom for many.
Simon Schama's Rough Crossings tells the story of the American revolution, the resettlement of slaves and others loyal to the British after the war. It covers a period from the 's up to the the turn of the century with a final part, up to the mid nineteenth century, that explores the beginnings and endings of history. Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution: Author: Simon Schama: Edition: illustrated: Publisher: Harper Collins, ISBN: X, Length: pages. Schama covers British America from a decade or two before the American Revolution, through the legislated end of slavery in Britain in the first decade or two of the 19th century, focusing on the lives of Blacks, mostly slaves, living in Colonial America (and elsewhere).
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