Entangled Alliances: Racialized Freedom and Atlantic Diplomacy During the American Revolution

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Ronald Angelo Johnson

Entangled Alliances

Racialized Freedom and Atlantic Diplomacy During the American Revolution

Ronald Angelo Johnson

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Cornell University Press
15 October 2025

History of the Americas; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900; Military history; American War of Independence; Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies

Series: The United States in the World

Entangled Alliances is a reinterpretation of the American Revolution through analysis of diplomacy in the emerging United States during decades of hemispheric transformation. Ronald Angelo Johnson brings to light the fascinating story of American patriots and rebels from Saint-Domingue (later Haiti) allying against European tyranny.

The American Revolution occurred between two of the greatest achievements in diplomacy of the eighteenth-century: the peace treaties at Paris in 1763 and 1783. In Entangled Alliances, Johnson draws on original multilingual sources to offer readers fresh, lively stories in a timely study. While modern understandings of freedom are often linked to the US Declaration of Independence, Johnson argues the desire of Black Atlantic inhabitants for liberty and their will to resist slavery predated the fateful standoff between Minutemen and Redcoats at Lexington and Concord.

Entangled Alliances is a US history of the American Revolution, fusing the search for freedom by Black and white founders in the United States and Saint-Domingue into a coherent story of collective resistance during the most explosive twenty-year period of the eighteenth century.

By: Ronald Angelo Johnson
Imprint: Cornell University Press
Country of Publication: United States [Currently unable to ship to USA: see Shipping Info]
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 907g
ISBN: 9781501783708
ISBN 10: 150178370X
Series: The United States in the World
Pages: 277
Publication Date: 15 October 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Prologue: An Insurrection of the Negroes Introduction: Between Two Treaties in Paris 1. Their Colour is a Diabolic Die 2. Kill them! Kill them! 3. A Natural Right to Be Free 4. No More Talk of Reconciliation 5. Articles of Entangling Alliance 6. Armed, Disciplined and Battle-Hardened Epilogue: The School of Liberty

Ronald Angelo Johnson holds the Ralph and Bessie Mae Lynn Chair of History at Baylor University.