Black Redcoats: The Corps of Colonial Marines, 1814-1816

Black enslaved Americans who fled to the British forged the Corps of Colonial Marines, transforming fear into a decisive, enduring challenge to American power.

During the Anglo-American War of 1812, British forces launched hundreds of amphibious raids on the United States. The richest parts of the United States were slave-states, and thousands of enslaved African Americans fled to British forces in what was to be the largest emancipation of enslaved Americans until the abolition of slavery i...