Black patriots and loyalists: fighting for emancipation in the war for independence

Introduction: Fear, hope, and the two revolutions in America

Lord Dunmore, black insurrection, and the independence movement in Virginia and South Carolina

Emancipation and revolution: the conjunction of pragmatism and principle

The Laurens family and emancipation

Black fighters for freedom: patriot recruitment and the two revolutions

Black fighters for freedom: British recruitment and the two revolutions

Black fighters in the two revolutions

Honor in defeat

Postwar black emigrations: the search for freedom and self-government

Democratic internationalism and the seeds of freedom.