Dunmore's new world : the extraordinary life of a royal governor in Revolutionary America--with Jacobites, counterfeiters, land schemes, shipwrecks, scalping, Indian politics, runaway slaves, and two illegal royal weddings /
This book tells the stranger-than-fiction story of Lord Dunmore, the last royal governor of Virginia, whose long-neglected life boasts a measure of scandal and intrigue rare in the annals of the colonial world. Dunmore not only issued the first formal proclamation of emancipation in American history...
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| Format: | eBook Electronic |
| Language: | English |
| Imprint: | Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2013 |
| Series: | Early American histories.
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| Online Access: | Click here for full text at JSTOR |