This 33-page book created for middle-school levels and above conveys the obscure history of African American freedom fighters during the War of 1812. It features original art from the period including muster lists of the runaways, and photographs of the descendants thriving in South Trinidad. Casting their fate to the wind, brave men and women with children in tow boarded British warships seeking asylum. For these refugees, there could be no worse outcome than enslavement on a plantation. Purchase here:
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Coastal ports where African Americans ran off with the British.
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