The Negro in the American Revolution

New York: International Publishers, 1940. First edition (unstated). Small brown octavo, 47 pages; 20 cm. Extremely mild rubbing to spine head and foot, extremely gently rubbed corners, extremely gentle rubbing to front-rear edge, else Near Fine(+). Paperback.

African Americans -- History -- 18th century. This book provides a brief overview of the role that black americans (one fifth of the population at the time) played in the American Revolution in the 18th century. The author attempts to show the varied activites and the place that these people had the uprising as well as in that phase of black American history. Contents: Pt. 1. The Growth in Anti-Slavery Feeling. Pt. 2. Efforts for Freedom. Special Precautions of the Slavocracy -- Flight -- Other Forms of Struggle -- Conspiracy, Rebellion -- Pt. 3. Service in the Armed Forces of the Revolution. The Navy -- The Army -- The Negros as Spies. Herbert Aptheker (July 31, 1915 – March 17, 2003) was an American Marxist historian and political activist. He wrote more than 50 books, mostly in the fields of African-American history and general U.S. history, most notably, American Negro Slave Revolts (1943), a classic in the field.