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An elegant and passionate writer, Alan Gilbert pulls no punches, and not surprisingly a number of white founders attract his censure. (Historian) Drawing on first-person accounts and other primary sources, Alan Gilbert tells an often inspiring but ultimately sad story, since American slavery endured and even expanded after the revolution. Still, the personal stories of those who fought on the patriots' side in an all-black regiment and on the loyalist side in exchange for a promise of freedom are fascinating and informative. Gilbert convincingly asserts that their example eventually helped inspire other liberation movements in the Western Hemisphere. (Booklist)

"""An elegant and passionate writer, Alan Gilbert pulls no punches, and not surprisingly a number of white founders attract his censure."" (Historian) ""Drawing on first-person accounts and other primary sources, Alan Gilbert tells an often inspiring but ultimately sad story, since American slavery endured and even expanded after the revolution. Still, the personal stories of those who fought on the patriots' side in an all-black regiment and on the loyalist side in exchange for a promise of freedom are fascinating and informative. Gilbert convincingly asserts that their example eventually helped inspire other liberation movements in the Western Hemisphere."" (Booklist)"""

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Alan Gilbert is a John Evans Professor in the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver. He is the author of Marx's Politics: Communists and Citizens, Democratic Individuality, and Must Global Politics Constrain Democracy? He lives with his wife, Paula, and their son, Sage, in the mountains of Morrison, Colorado.

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