Description |
1 online resource (xi, 253 pages) : illustrations, map |
Contents |
Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1. The Hardship Sale -- Chapter 2. Growing Pains -- Chapter 3. The Four Horsemen -- Chapter 4. In the Crosshairs -- Chapter 5. The Killing -- Chapter 6. Answering the Call -- Chapter 7. Another Call, Another Answer -- Chapter 8. Home Fires and Campfires -- Chapter 9. The Ethiopian Regiment -- Chapter 10. A Motherless Child -- Chapter 11. Getting Back, Getting Even -- Chapter 12. The Year of Possibilities -- Chapter 13. Trials and Tribulations -- Chapter 14. An Eye for an Eye -- Chapter 15. Free at Last |
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Chapter 16. The Winter SoldierChapter 17. Final Battles -- Afterword -- Essay on Sources -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y |
Summary |
A boy named Peter, born to a slave in Massachusetts in 1763, was sold nineteen months later to a childless white couple there. This bookrecounts the fascinating history of how the American Revolution came to Peter's small town, how he joined the revolutionary army at the age of twelve, and how he participated in the battles of Bunker Hill and Yorktown and witnessed the surrender at Saratoga. Joyce Lee Malcolm describes Peter's home life in rural New England, which became increasingly unhappy as he grew aware of racial differences and prejudices. She then relates how he and other blacks, slave and free, joined the war to achieve their own independence. Malcolm juxtaposes Peter's life in the patriot armieswith that of the life of Titus, a New Jersey slave who fled to the British in 1775 and reemerged as a feared guerrilla leader. A remarkable feat of investigation, Peter's biography illuminates many themes in American history: race relations in New England, the prelude to and military history of the Revolutionary War, and the varied experience of black soldiers who fought on both sides |
Notes |
"A Caravan book"--Title page verso |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
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English |
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Print version record |
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Peter, 1763-1791 or 1792.
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Peter, 1763-1791 or 1792. fast (OCoLC)fst01928201 |
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Enslaved children -- Massachusetts -- Lincoln -- Biography
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African American boys -- Massachusetts -- Lincoln -- Biography
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Farm life -- Massachusetts -- Lincoln -- History -- 18th century
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African American soldiers -- Massachusetts -- Biography
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
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HISTORY.
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HISTORY -- United States -- Colonial Period (1600-1775)
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Military participation -- African American.
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African American boys.
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African American soldiers.
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Child slaves.
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Farm life.
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Manners and customs.
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Race relations.
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Sklave
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Kind
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Lincoln (Mass.) -- Social life and customs -- 18th century
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Lincoln (Mass.) -- Biography
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Massachusetts -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Participation, African American
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United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Participation, African American
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New England -- Race relations -- History -- 18th century
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Massachusetts.
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Massachusetts -- Lincoln.
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New England.
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United States.
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Lincoln, Mass.
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Schwarze.
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Biographies.
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History.
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Biographies.
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Electronic book
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ISBN |
9780300142761 |
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0300142765 |
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9786612088674 |
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6612088672 |
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