Slaves and freed blacks accounted for 20% of the population at the time of the Revolutionary War. Historian Simon Schama tells the often overlooked story of the African-Americans who fought with the Redcoats, trying to defeat the colonists and remain a part of the British Empire.
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African-Americans in the American Revolution (Rebroadcast)
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Simon Schama
University Professor of History and Art History at Columbia University and author of "Rough Crossings: Britain, The Slaves, and the American Revolution" (Ecco)
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