A Slave Army to Save America in the American Revolution 1779 - The Forgotten Story
A Slave Army to Save America in the American Revolution 1779 - The Forgotten Story by Phillip Thomas Tucker
English | October 16, 2023 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0CL7R33QB | 122 pages | EPUB | 0.57 Mb
English | October 16, 2023 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0CL7R33QB | 122 pages | EPUB | 0.57 Mb
In 1779 when America's fortunes were sagging during the struggle for liberty, John Laurens, a South Carolina blueblood, and Alexander Hamilton, a recent immigrant from the West Indies, promoted the most audacious idea and boldest plan of the American Revolution: the formation of a slave army of Continental soldiers to fight for America in the ill-prepared and poorly-defended South, when powerful British forces were about to invade the South in 1780. However, while accepted by the Continental Congress in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the racism of state politicians in Georgia and South Carolina voted down the plan, which nearly resulted in the conquest of the entire South by the British and America losing the Revolutionary War. This is the forgotten story of the bold plan of two of General George Washington's young staff officers, abolitionists Hamilton and Laurens, that was calculated to save America, before it was too late.