Brothers in Liberty: The Forgotten Story of the Free Black Haitians Who Fought for American Independence
About this ebook
The Chasseurs constituted the largest Black military unit in the American Revolution. The soldiers were free men, the sons of French fathers, mostly sugar plantation owners, and slave mothers in France’s most prosperous overseas colony. In the fall of 1779, this force joined the attack on the British at Savannah in a series of frontal results. The French and Americans were repulsed at great cost in lives, but the free Black Haitians stood their ground—and, in a moment of high courage that has never received its due, stymied a British counterattack that salvaged the day for the Americans and French.
A rock at Savannah on behalf of the American Revolution, many of the Haitian survivors of the battle went on to serve the cause of liberty in the Haitian Revolution and help found the first Black republic in world history. This is their story.
About the author
Phillip Thomas Tucker Ph.D. is an award-winning author and historian who has written more than eighty books in many fields of history. His previous books include Pickett’s Charge: A New Look at Gettysburg’s Final Attack (Skyhorse, 2016), which historian William C. Davis praised as “thoughtful and challenging . . . fresh and bold,” and Death at the Little Bighorn: A New Look at Custer, His Tactics, and the Tragic Decision Made at the Last Stand (Skyhorse, 2017). For Stackpole, Tucker has written Cathy Williams (2002), Custer at Gettysburg (2019), and Ranger Raid (2021). He lives in Central Florida.
