The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832: by Alan Taylor
By Alan Taylor
Winner of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for History
"Impressively researched and fantastically crafted…a impressive account of slavery in Virginia in the course of and after the Revolution." —Mark M. Smith, Wall highway Journal
Frederick Douglass recalled that slaves dwelling alongside Chesapeake Bay longingly seen crusing ships as "freedom’s swift-winged angels." In 1813 these angels seemed within the bay as British warships coming to punish the american citizens for pointing out conflict at the empire. Over many nights, 1000s of slaves paddled out to the warships looking safeguard for his or her households from the ravages of slavery. The runaways confused the British admirals into changing into liberators. As courses, pilots, sailors, and marines, the previous slaves used their intimate wisdom of the nation-state to rework the battle. They enabled the British to expand their onshore assaults and to trap and burn Washington, D.C. Tidewater masters had lengthy dreaded their slaves as "an inner enemy." by means of mobilizing that enemy, the warfare ignited the inner most fears of Chesapeake slaveholders. It additionally alienated Virginians from a countrywide govt that had missed their safeguard. in its place they grew to become south, their pursuits aligning a growing number of with their part. In 1820 Thomas Jefferson saw of sectionalism: "Like a firebell within the evening [it] woke up and crammed me with terror. I thought of it immediately the knell of the union." The notes of alarm in Jefferson's remark communicate of the phobia aroused through the new quandary over slavery in his domestic kingdom. His imaginative and prescient of a cataclysm to come back proved prescient. Jefferson's startling remark registered a flip within the nation’s path, a pivot from the nationwide objective of the founding towards the specter of disunion. Drawn from new assets, Alan Taylor's riveting narrative re-creates the occasions that encouraged black Virginians, haunted slaveholders, and set the country on a brand new and hazardous course.
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