Across the Storm: Britain, Slaves, and the American Revolution
About This Novel
In this book, Simon Schama uses passionate and superb narrative art to tell the story of many unknown abolitionists and blacks fighting to emancipate slaves before and after the American Revolution. They believe that freedom is a right that belongs to all human beings, regardless of skin color. The abolitionists made impassioned speeches in court for the kidnapped blacks, and led them through bullet-ridden North American battlefields, across the storm-torn Atlantic Ocean, and finally returned to their homeland in Africa, creating a new country in the barbaric and desolate Sierra Leone. The obstruction of slaveholders, the hypocrisy of revolutionaries, the interference of the British government, and even the betrayal of black compatriots, all kinds of difficulties and obstacles could not destroy their determination and courage to pursue and defend freedom.
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