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Internal Enemy

Internal Enemy

slavery and war in Virginia, 1772-1832
HistoryMilitary History
Pages
624
Published
2013
Language
English

Synopsis

During the War of 1812, hundreds of enslaved people along Chesapeake Bay sought freedom by joining British warships, transforming the conflict. These former slaves, acting as guides and marines, enabled British attacks, including the burning of Washington, D.C. This mobilization of the 'internal enemy' intensified slaveholders' fears and alienated Virginians from the national government, foreshadowing the sectionalism that Thomas Jefferson observed as 'a firebell in the night.

Prose complexity
7/10

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Authors

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Bronson Pinchot

Bronson Pinchot curated H.P. Lovecraft's Book of the Supernatural, a collection of 20 macabre classics selected by Lovecraft himself. He's a keen eye for the eerie and the unsettling.