Revolutionary Reads: Rough Crossings

Join us in celebrating America's 250th Birthday attending Revolutionary Reads!

March's selection is "Rough Crossings" by Simon Schama.

We will meet at Oconee History Museum to discuss the book and to talk about the history relating to the American Revolution. Readers are responsible for acquiring their own books.

It will truly be a revolutionary time!


If you were black in America at the start of the Revolutionary War, whom would you want to win? In response to a declaration by the last governor of Virginia that any rebel-owned slave who escaped and served the King would be emancipated, tens of thousands of blacks voted with feet, escaping to fight beside the British. Originally designed to break the plantations of the American South, this military strategy instead unleashed one of the great exoduses in American history.

Told in the voices of the slaves and the white abolitionists who aided them, Simon Schama vividly details the odyssey of these escaped blacks, shedding light on an extraordinary chapter in America’s birth. --amazon.com

You may also like the following events from Oconee History Museum:

• Next Saturday, 21st February, 11:00 am, House Plant Swap in Walhalla