Lord Dunmore’s Proclamation

Further Reading

Books

• Egerton, Douglas R. Death or Liberty: African Americans and Revolutionary America. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009.
• Frey, Sylvia R. Water from the Rock: Black Resistance in a Revolutionary Age. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1991.
• Nash, Gary B. The Forgotten Fifth: African Americans in the Age of Revolution. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2006.
• Quarles, Benjamin. The Negro in the American Revolution. New York: W. W. Norton, 1973.
• ———. Black Mosaic: Essays in Afro-American History and Historiography. Amherst, Mass.: University of Massachusetts Press, 1988.

Web Sites

• “Dunmore’s Proclamation: A Time to Choose.” Colonial Williamsburg Web site. www.history.org/african/aadunpro.cfm.