Gene Allen Smith. The Slaves' Gamble: Choosing Sides in the War of New York: Palgrave Macmillan, xiii + pp. $ (cloth), ISBN Reviewed by Timothy C. Hemmis (University of Southern Mississippi) Published on H-War (March, ) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey A Chance at Freedom. 7 rows · · The Slaves' Gamble: Choosing Sides in the War of Author: Gene Allen Smith: Author: Gene Allen Smith. · The Slaves’ Gamble, Choosing Sides in the war of “The Slaves’ Gamble” by Professor of history Gene Smith helps to fill a huge void in information about what, if any, kind of resistance enslaved people put up against their condition of www.doorway.ruted Reading Time: 5 mins.
This is essential reading for all students of the war as well as for anyone interested in American race relations or U.S. military history."--Don Hickey, author of "The War of " "In The Slaves' Gamble, Gene Allen Smith richly details the lives of enslaved people struggling for freedom through an array of strategies in a complex war. In the Anglo-American War of , both sides recruited black Americans as soldiers; the British offered freedom to American slaves who would fight for them. Gene Allen Smith's account, scrupulously researched in both British and U.S. sources, sheds new light on many aspects of that conflict, including the little-known 'Patriot War' in Florida. In The Slave's Gamble: Choosing Sides in the War of , author Gene Smith shared the stories of several African Americans and their decision to fight for or against the United States during.
Yet for a study which states boldly at the outset that the War of “halted all progress” toward emancipation and should be recognized as “a major dividing line in the history of American race relations,” The Slaves' Gamble delivers rather less interpretively than one might have hoped (p. 3). As is common with books on the War of , Smith's compassion for his subjects and need to cover various fronts seem to work against his generalizations and analysis. This book provides an interesting angle within the United States' second war with Great Britain. Smith looks into the difficult predicament which slaves faced in about which many readers likely have not heard. While 19th century American history is among the least interesting to me, I still found enjoyable parts within The Slaves' Gamble. Gene Allen Smith. The Slaves' Gamble: Choosing Sides in the War of New York: Palgrave Macmillan, xiii + pp. $ (cloth), ISBN Reviewed by Timothy C. Hemmis (University of Southern Mississippi) Published on H-War (March, ) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey A Chance at Freedom.
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