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Author Taylor, Alan, 1955- author

Title The internal enemy : slavery and war in Virginia, 1772-1832 / Alan Taylor
Edition First edition
Published New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2013]
©2013

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Description xiii, 605 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
regular print
Contents Revolution -- Night and day -- Blood -- Warships -- Invasion -- Lessons -- Plantation -- Flight -- Fight -- Crisis -- Agents -- Fire bell -- Appendix A. Corotoman slave families, 1814 -- Appendix B. Numbers
Summary Drawn from new sources, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian presents a gripping narrative that recreates the events that inspired hundreds of slaves to pressure British admirals into becoming liberators by using their intimate knowledge of the countryside to transform the war
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 443-584) and index
Notes Pulitzer Prize in Letters - History (winner) 2014
Subject Free African Americans -- Virginia -- Norfolk -- History.
Plantation life -- Virginia -- Tidewater (Region) -- History.
Slavery -- Virginia -- Tidewater (Region) -- History.
Slaves -- Virginia -- Tidewater (Region) -- History.
SUBJECT United States -- History -- War of 1812 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140194 -- Naval operations, British
United States -- History -- War of 1812 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140194 -- Participation, African American. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002006187
Virginia -- History -- War of 1812. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85143769
LC no. 2013009643
ISBN 0393073718 (hardback)
9780393073713 (hardback)