{"product_id":"rough-crossings-britain-the-slaves-and-the-american-revolution","title":"Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eRough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eSimon Schama\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780060539160\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eEcco \/ HarperCollins\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2006\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003eHardcover\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eFirst Edition\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e496\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eClean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e“The most dramatic account so far of the extraordinary expeience of slaves in and after the American Revolution. . . . Schama's gift for plunging us into the very center of the action makes reading an exhilarating and often moving experience.”--Daily Telegraph\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIf 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 and served the King would be emancpated, tens of thousands of blacks voted with feet, escaping to fight beside the British. Originally designed to break the plantations of the American South, this military strategy instead unleashed one of the great exoduses in American history. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Told in the voices of the slaves and the white abolitionists who aided them, Simon Schama vividly details the odyssey of these escaped blacks, shedding light on an extraordinary chapter in America's birth.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Ecco \/ HarperCollins","offers":[{"title":"Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution | Simon Schama | Hardcover | 9780060539160 | Used: Very Good | Back Stacks E 1761023","offer_id":49229593149592,"sku":"1761023","price":9.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/91I_RSriaAL.jpg?v=1781219557","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/rough-crossings-britain-the-slaves-and-the-american-revolution","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}