Race and Revolution

By Gary B. Nash

Book Overview

Race and Revolution is a trenchant study of the revolutionary generation's early efforts to right the apparent contradiction of slavery and of their ultimate compromises that not only left the institution intact, but provided it with the protection of a vastly strengthened government after 1788. Race and Revolution describes the free black community's response to this failure of the revolution's promise, its vigorous and articulate pleas for justice, and the community's successes in building its own African-American institutions within the hostile environment of early nineteenth-century America.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0945612214
• ISBN13: 9780945612216
• Release Date: December 1990
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.07 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Excellent on slavery and the American Revolution

This book is a real eye-opener for anyone, like me, who thought that slavery was not an issue at the time of the American Revolution. Did you think slaves did not understand what was going on? Have a look!