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American Revolution Podcast

ARP214 A Proposal to Arm Slaves

American Revolution Podcast

Michael Troy

History, Education

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 22 August 2021

⏱️ 35 minutes

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The British army threatens South Carolina in 1779. The Continental Congress supports a proposal to raise and army of slaves to defend the state. Visit my blog at https://blog.AmRevPodcast.com for a complete transcript as well as links to other works by the author. Follow the podcast on Twitter @AmRevPodcast Book Recommendations of the Week: John Laurens and the American Revolution, by Gregory D. Massey  Online Recommendation of the Week: Massey, Gregory D. “The Limits of Antislavery Thought in the Revolutionary Lower South: John Laurens and Henry Laurens.” The Journal of Southern History, vol. 63, no. 3, 1997, pp. 495–530. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/2211648 Join the Facebook group, American Revolution Podcast: https://www.facebook.com/groups/132651894048271 Join the podcast mail list: https://mailchi.mp/d3445a9cd244/american-revolution-podcast-by-michael-troy ARP T-shirts and other merch: http://tee.pub/lic/AmRevPodcast Support this podcast on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/user?u=15621839 or via PayPal http://paypal.me/AmRevPodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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This week episode 214, a proposal to armed slaves.

1:04.3

In the spring of 1779, the Southern colonies were under threat.

1:09.1

Britain had deployed thousands of regulars to take back Georgia. They invaded Savannah in December 1778 with relative ease and after the Battle of Breyer Creek that I discussed last week seemed to have a colony that was back under their control.

1:26.1

The British force under General Augustine Prevost had already begun probing into South

1:31.5

Carolina, with that being the next obvious step.

1:35.8

The British then hoped to build on their success to take back North Carolina and possibly

1:41.3

even Virginia.

1:43.0

British leaders believe that the southern colonies, largely settled by the descendants

1:47.4

of aristocratic families, would be most amenable to a return to British rule and would be the most likely source of Tory

1:55.3

militia armies to support the regulars. Opposing the British was a small force

2:00.4

of Continental's under the command of General Benjamin Lincoln, who had taken up

2:04.8

command at Purisburg, South Carolina, just a few miles upriver from British occupied

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