Entangled Alliances : Racialized Freedom and Atlantic Diplomacy during the American Revolution (The United States in the World)

Johnson, Ronald Angelo

Cornell University Press（2025/10発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 277 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781501783715
• DDC分類 326.09729409

Full Description

Entangled Alliances is a reinterpretation of the American Revolution through analysis of diplomacy in the emerging United States during decades of hemispheric transformation. Ronald Angelo Johnson brings to light the fascinating story of American patriots and rebels from Saint-Domingue (later Haiti) allying against European tyranny.

The American Revolution occurred between two of the greatest achievements in diplomacy of the eighteenth-century: the peace treaties at Paris in 1763 and 1783. In Entangled Alliances, Johnson draws on original multilingual sources to offer readers fresh, lively stories in a timely study. While modern understandings of freedom are often linked to the US Declaration of Independence, Johnson argues the desire of Black Atlantic inhabitants for liberty and their will to resist slavery predated the fateful standoff between Minutemen and Redcoats at Lexington and Concord.

Entangled Alliances is a US history of the American Revolution, fusing the search for freedom by Black and white founders in the United States and Saint-Domingue into a coherent story of collective resistance during the most explosive twenty-year period of the eighteenth century.

Contents

Prologue: An Insurrection of the Negroes
Introduction: Between Two Treaties in Paris
1. Their Colour is a Diabolic Die
2. Kill them! Kill them!
3. A Natural Right to Be Free
4. No More Talk of Reconciliation
5. Articles of Entangling Alliance
6. Armed, Disciplined and Battle-Hardened
Epilogue: The School of Liberty