The World of Thomas Jeremiah: Charles Town on the Eve of the American Revolution

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This book profiles the port of Charles Town, South Carolina, all over the two-year period leading up to the Declaration of Independence. It specializes in the dramatic hanging and burning of Thomas Jeremiah, a free black harbor pilot and firefighter accused by the patriot party of plotting a slave riot all over the tumultous spring and summer of 1775. To examine the world of this rich, slave-holding African American through his trial and execution, William R. Ryan uses a wide selection of letters, naval records, personal and official correspondence, memoirs, and newspapers. He shows that the black majority of the South Carolina Low Country managed to lend a hand the British in their invasion efforts, regardless of patriot attempts to frighten Afro-Carolinians into passivity and submission. Even though Whigs attempted, through brutality and violence, to keep their slaves from participating in the conflict, Afro-Carolinians became actively involved in the struggle between colonists and the Crown as spies, messengers, navigators and marauders. The book demonstrates that an understanding of what used to be going on in this vital seaport all over the mid-1770s has broader implications for the study of the Atlantic world, African American history, naval history, urban race relations, labor history, and the turbulent politics of The united states’s move toward independence.

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