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008			121213s2013 nyuab b 001 0 eng
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050			_aE 359.9.A35 _b.Sm51 2013
100			_aSmith, Gene A., _d-1963 _9121526
245		4	_aThe slaves' gamble : _bchoosing sides in the War of 1812 / _cGene Allen Smith.
264			_aNew York, NY : _bPalgrave Macmillan, _c2013
300			_axiii, 257 pages : _billustrations, maps _c25 cm
336			_atext _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 217-249) and index.
505			_aBlack soldiers in North America: "Never of any use after they have carried arms" -- Fighting in the north 1807-13 and on the seas: "Absolutely insensible to danger" -- The Florida patriot war of 1812: "For freedom we want and will have" -- Terror in the Chesapeake, 1813-14: "Negroes who were anxious to join us" -- Washington, Baltimore, and other targets: "Our enemy at home" -- War along the southern coasts, 1814: "That pride of distinction, which a soldier's pursuits so naturally inspire" -- Different places, same results, 1815 and after: "They were in every sense of the word free men".
520			_aThis book examines African American combatants during the War of 1812 as away to understand the evolution of American racial relations during the early nineteenth century. In many instances black participants - slaves and freemen-chose sides, and these choices ultimately defined their future.
650			_aAfrican American soldiers _9108925
942			_cALR
999			_c86277 _d86277