"The corps of colonial marines 1814–16: A summary" Topic
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Tango01 | 15 Jun 2020 10:22 p.m. PST |
"The article summarizes recent research for a book in progress. Of 4,000 black Americans quitting slavery in the War of 1812 through the British navy, 600 who confronted their ex‐masters as the Corps of Colonial Marines are unduly ignored in the record of black American resistance to slavery. Settled in Trinidad with their families as a new free black yeomanry two decades before emancipation, they brought their Baptist faith from America and formed an independent community that persists today. The first documentary account of the Corps includes personnel and organization hitherto missing from the annals of Trinidad and the Royal Marines." Main page link Amicalement Armand |
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