001478617 000__ 05041nam\a22008415i\4500 001478617 001__ 1478617 001478617 003__ DE-B1597 001478617 005__ 20231026034948.0 001478617 006__ m\\\\\o\\d\\\\\\\\ 001478617 007__ cr\un\nnnunnun 001478617 008__ 220131t20222006mau\\\\\o\\d\z\\\\\\eng\d 001478617 020__ $$a9780674041349 001478617 0247_ $$a10.4159/9780674041349$$2doi 001478617 035__ $$a(DE-B1597)574642 001478617 040__ $$aDE-B1597$$beng$$cDE-B1597$$erda 001478617 0410_ $$aeng 001478617 044__ $$amau$$cUS-MA 001478617 050_4 $$aE269.N3 ǂb N36 2006eb 001478617 072_7 $$aHIS036030$$2bisacsh 001478617 08204 $$a326.0973/09033 001478617 1001_ $$aNash, Gary B, $$eauthor.$$4aut$$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 001478617 24514 $$aThe Forgotten Fifth :$$bAfrican Americans in the Age of Revolution /$$cGary B Nash. 001478617 264_1 $$aCambridge, MA : $$bHarvard University Press, $$c[2022] 001478617 264_4 $$c©2006 001478617 300__ $$a1 online resource (249 p.) 001478617 336__ $$atext$$btxt$$2rdacontent 001478617 337__ $$acomputer$$bc$$2rdamedia 001478617 338__ $$aonline resource$$bcr$$2rdacarrier 001478617 347__ $$atext file$$bPDF$$2rda 001478617 4900_ $$aThe Nathan I. Huggins Lectures 001478617 50500 $$tFrontmatter -- $$tCONTENTS -- $$tPREFACE -- $$t1 THE BLACK AMERICANS' REVOLUTION -- $$t2 COULD SLAVERY HAVE BEEN ABOLISHED? -- $$t3 RACE AND CITIZENSHIP IN THE EARLY REPUBLIC -- $$tNOTES -- $$tINDEX 001478617 506__ $$aAccess limited to authorized users. 001478617 520__ $$aAs the United States gained independence, a full fifth of the country's population was African American. The experiences of these men and women have been largely ignored in the accounts of the colonies' glorious quest for freedom. In this compact volume, Gary B. Nash reorients our understanding of early America, and reveals the perilous choices of the founding fathers that shaped the nation's future. Nash tells of revolutionary fervor arousing a struggle for freedom that spiraled into the largest slave rebellion in American history, as blacks fled servitude to fight for the British, who promised freedom in exchange for military service. The Revolutionary Army never matched the British offer, and most histories of the period have ignored this remarkable story. The conventional wisdom says that abolition was impossible in the fragile new republic. Nash, however, argues that an unusual convergence of factors immediately after the war created a unique opportunity to dismantle slavery. The founding fathers' failure to commit to freedom led to the waning of abolitionism just as it had reached its peak. In the opening decades of the nineteenth century, as Nash demonstrates, their decision enabled the ideology of white supremacy to take root, and with it the beginnings of an irreparable national fissure. The moral failure of the Revolution was paid for in the 1860s with the lives of the 600,000 Americans killed in the Civil War. The Forgotten Fifth is a powerful story of the nation's multiple, and painful, paths to freedom. 001478617 538__ $$aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. 001478617 546__ $$aIn English. 001478617 5880_ $$aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 31. Jan 2022) 001478617 650_0 $$aAfrican Americans$$xCongresses$$xHistory$$xTo 1863. 001478617 650_0 $$aAfrican Americans$$xHistory$$yTo 1863$$vCongresses. 001478617 650_0 $$aSlavery$$xCongresses$$xHistory$$x18th century$$xUnited States. 001478617 650_0 $$aSlavery$$zUnited States$$xHistory$$y18th century$$vCongresses. 001478617 650_7 $$aHISTORY / United States / Revolutionary Period (1775-1800).$$2bisacsh 001478617 655_0 $$aElectronic books 001478617 77308 $$iTitle is part of eBook package:$$dDe Gruyter$$tHUP eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 (Canada)$$z9783110756067 001478617 77308 $$iTitle is part of eBook package:$$dDe Gruyter$$tHarvard University Press eBook Package Backlist 2000-2013$$z9783110442205 001478617 852__ $$bebk 001478617 85640 $$3De Gruyter$$uhttps://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674041349$$zOnline Access 001478617 909CO $$ooai:library.usi.edu:1478617$$pGLOBAL_SET 001478617 912__ $$a978-3-11-044220-5 Harvard University Press eBook Package Backlist 2000-2013$$c2000$$d2013 001478617 912__ $$a978-3-11-075606-7 HUP eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 (Canada)$$b2013 001478617 912__ $$aEBA_BACKALL 001478617 912__ $$aEBA_CL_HICS 001478617 912__ $$aEBA_EBACKALL 001478617 912__ $$aEBA_EBKALL 001478617 912__ $$aEBA_ECL_HICS 001478617 912__ $$aEBA_EEBKALL 001478617 912__ $$aEBA_ESSHALL 001478617 912__ $$aEBA_PPALL 001478617 912__ $$aEBA_SSHALL 001478617 912__ $$aGBV-deGruyter-alles 001478617 912__ $$aPDA11SSHE 001478617 912__ $$aPDA13ENGE 001478617 912__ $$aPDA17SSHEE 001478617 912__ $$aPDA5EBK 001478617 980__ $$aBIB 001478617 980__ $$aEBOOK 001478617 982__ $$aEbook 001478617 983__ $$aOnline