Slavery and the American Revolution

Sources used on this website:

 

Pictures:

 

     Picture 1: William L. Champney. (fl. 1850-1857). Boston Massacre, March 5th, 1770. Boston, Published by Henry Q. Smith, 1856. Chromolithograph, 17 ¾ x 24 in. 

https://www.bostonathenaeum.org/about/publications/selections-acquired-tastes/bloody-massacre

 

     Picture 2: http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2013-05-11/features/ct-prj-0512-bunker-hill-nathaniel-philbrick-20130511_1_bunker-hill-printers-row-journal-british-soldier

 

Books:

 

    1) Horne, Gerald. The Counter-Revolution of 1776. New York University Press, 2014. Pgs. 237-240, 246.

    2) Kaplan, Sidney, and Emma Nogrady Kaplan. The Black Presence in the Era of the American Revolution. Univ of Massachusetts Press, 1989. Pgs. 20-21.

 

    3) MacLeod, Duncan. Slavery, Race and the American Revolution. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1974. Pgs. 20-28.

    4) Tise, Larry E. Proslavery: A History of the Defense of Slavery in America, 1701-1840. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1987. Pgs. 15, 18, 20-22.

 

    5) Zilversmit, Arthur. The First Emancipation: the Abolition of Slavery in the North. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1967. Pgs. 144-146.