![]() | Negro Comrades of the Crown: African Americans and the British Empire Fight the U.S. Before Emancipation Subjects: Slave insurrections -- United States -- History -- 19th century; African Americans -- Relations with British -- History -- 19th century; Government Resistance to -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Slavery -- United States -- History -- 19th cen; 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. Horne Gerald : Gerald Horne is Moores Professor of History and African American Studies at the University of Houston, and has published three dozen books including, The Counter-Revolution of 1776: Slave Resistance and the Origins of the USA and Race War! White Supremacy and the Japanese Attack on the British Empire. |
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