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Author Malcolm, Joyce Lee.

Title Peter's war : a New England slave boy and the American Revolution / Joyce Lee Malcolm
Published New Haven [Conn.] : Yale Univ. Press, ©2009

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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
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
Notes English
Print version record
Subject Peter, 1763-1791 or 1792.
SUBJECT Peter, 1763-1791 or 1792. fast (OCoLC)fst01928201
Subject Enslaved children -- Massachusetts -- Lincoln -- Biography
African American boys -- Massachusetts -- Lincoln -- Biography
Farm life -- Massachusetts -- Lincoln -- History -- 18th century
African American soldiers -- Massachusetts -- Biography
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
HISTORY.
HISTORY -- United States -- Colonial Period (1600-1775)
Military participation -- African American.
African American boys.
African American soldiers.
Child slaves.
Farm life.
Manners and customs.
Race relations.
Sklave
Kind
SUBJECT Lincoln (Mass.) -- Social life and customs -- 18th century
Lincoln (Mass.) -- Biography
Massachusetts -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Participation, African American
United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Participation, African American
New England -- Race relations -- History -- 18th century
Subject Massachusetts.
Massachusetts -- Lincoln.
New England.
United States.
Lincoln, Mass.
Schwarze.
Genre/Form Biographies.
History.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780300142761
0300142765
9786612088674
6612088672