Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution by Simon Schama

Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution

Simon Schama

496 pages first pub 2005 (editions)

nonfiction history informative reflective slow-paced
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Rough Crossings turns on a single huge question: if you were black in America at the start of the Revolutionary War, whom would you want to win? In response to a declaration by the last governor of Virginia that any rebel-owned slave who escaped a...

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