The internal enemy : slavery and war in Virginia, 1772 -1832 /
Frederick Douglass recalled that slaves living along Chesapeake Bay longingly viewed sailing ships as "freedom's swift-winged angels." In 1813 those angels appeared in the bay as British warships coming to punish the Americans for declaring war on the empire. Over many nights, hundred...
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New York :
W W Norton,
2014.
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| Edition: | First Norton paperback. |
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Table of Contents:
- Revolution
- Night and day
- Blood
- Warships
- Invasion
- Lessons
- Plantation
- Flight
- Fight
- Crisis
- Agents
- Fire bell
- Epilogue
- Acknowledgments
- Appendix A. Corotoman slave families, 1814
- Appendix B. Numbers.
