Black Patriots and Loyalists: Fighting for Emancipation in the War for Independence Books and reinterprets the vagaries of

and reinterprets the vagaries of colonial politics to offer a thrilling response to one of our most vexing historical questions: How could a fledgling nation have defeated the most powerful war machine of the era

and in the initial volume of the Revolution Trilogy he recounts the first twenty-one months of America’s violent war for independence

the surprising influx of ethnic groups that powered the scruffy

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Black Patriots and Loyalists: Fighting for Emancipation in the War for Independence Books and reinterprets the vagaries ofWe commonly think of the American Revolution as simply the war for independence from British colonial rule. But, of course, that independence actually applied to only a portion of the American populationAfrican Americans would still be bound in slavery for nearly another century. Alan Gilbert asks us to rethink what we know about the Revolutionary War, to realize that while white Americans were fighting for their freedom, many black Americans were