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| AUTHOR: | Alfred W. Blumrosen, RUTH G. BLUMROSEN |
| CATEGORY: | Book |
| MANUFACTURER: | Sourcebooks |
| ISBN: | 1402204000 |
| TYPE: | 18th century, African Americans, Causes, Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - Histor, History, History - General History, History: American, Revolution, 1775-1783, Slavery, Social History, To 1863, United States, United States - Colonial Period, United States - Revolutionary War |
| MEDIA: | Hardcover |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
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The influence of the Sommerset case on the Revolution Studying the American Revolution in isolation can be misleading, and it is important to see the overall context, especially the English one. This book expands this context, and is an entirely remarkable new perspective on the role of slavery in the American Revolution and it is remarkable also that the recently published 'Though the Heavens May Fall' by Steven Wise about the Sommerset case in England seems the perfect introduction to this account (howver, this book amply summarizes the key issues). One could recommend the two together. This case and its pivotal trial resulted in the de facto emancipation of slaves in England. Few histories of the American Revolution properly delineate the sequence of events in the American colonies following this case which in effect established a precedent that sooner or later would effect the status of slavery in colonial America. The cruel irony is that these developments were a crucial factor influencing the Southern slaveholders in their support of the Revolutionary War, not quite the standard version of how it all happened. This interpretation is obvious once pointed out, and requires rethinking almost everything one has read here.