Excerpt from <i>Negro Comrades of the Crown: African Americans and the British Empire Fight the U.S. before Emancipation</i>

Abstract

Negro Comrades of the Crown unveils the amazing history of the alliances that African Americans in search of individual and group freedom forged throughout the antebellum decades with the British Empire. Black soldiers were recruited by the British, who had their own imperial and diplomatic interests, in opposing the United States. Whether in the War of 1812, in raids from Spanish Florida, in the Caribbean, or in opposing the secession of Texas from Mexico, they eagerly joined in battles against the slave republic and its citizens.

Keywords

• african americans
• british empire
• history
• african american studies