Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves, And the American Revolution

from LarrySouders

If you want to know about slavery and the revolutionary war this is the book for you. Emotional feelings run through out this narrative. Makes one aware of the importance of the African race in this country's struggle for self rule.

from Marie-Clare

Very sad, a bit hard-going at times but well written and interesting.

from JBD1

Columbia University professor Simon Schama's newest offering is Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves, and the American Revolution. In his signature narrative style, Schama tackles a subject which certainly does not rank among the most popular or comfortable for American readers - the treatment of...

from cpg

Not the most enjoyable of Schama's books, but very instructive. A good lesson for those who would issue a blanket condemnation of the American South, since it illustrates how widely the evils of slavery permeated elsewhere, too. Eye. Beam. Mote. etc.

from rivkat

Really interesting history of African-Americans (and some Africans as well) who escaped slavery during/because of the American Revolution-some of them escaping from men who signed the Declaration of Independence. Schama follows them to Canada and Sierra Leone, where they rarely got what they were...