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Book Review


Epic Journeys of Freedom: Runaway Slaves of the American Revolution and Their Global Quest for Liberty. By Cassandra Pybus. (Boston: Beacon, 2006. xxii, 281 pp. $26.95, ISBN 0-8070- 5514-X.)
Epic Journeys of Freedom relates previously untold narratives of African Americans who struggled for their own independence during the American Revolution. In contrast to Benjamin Quarles, who also studied slaves who ran away to the British in his still-relevant book, The Negro in the American Revolution (1961), Cassandra Pybus focuses her attention on individual narratives. She recovers "from scattered fragments in the archives the stories of individuals engaged in the tortuous process of negotiating their freedom during the American Revolution" (p. xxvii). Readers will be impressed by how tortuous the journeys of some of those runaways truly were. . . .
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