In the spirit of the excellent post "Colonel Tye & The British Ethiopian Regiment, here's a review of a book on blacks and the Revolutionary War that I wrote for the Halifax Daily News four years ago.
Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves and the Ameri
Steven Barne's Lion's Blood takes place in an alternate historical timeline, where the main point of divergence (POD) from our own appears to be a revelation to Alexander the Great of Macedonia which keeps him in Egypt, rather than making forays into
Detail from "The Death of Major Pierson," 1782-84, oil painting by John Singleton Copley depicting a black soldier fighting for the British during the American Revolution. Black soldiers in Dunmore's Royal Ethiopian Regiment had "Liberty to Slaves"