some cases kill their former masters. now, possessing racial prejudice, these british naval officers, again, they re growing into this role. don t get the idea that these are william lloyd garrison on the decks of these naval warships. they ve got other priorities. so they are not natural-born abolitionists but they are working up a real good hatred for the united states as this conflict goes along, and they re trying to think, how can we really stick it to them? and it occurs to them, by liberating their slaves and using them against them. that s what is going on here. and coburn thought, well, it s useful because it draws these people away from their masters. it weakens the economy. he s not sure these young men are going to be effective fighters. he said, quote, blackie hears about naturally very valorous, end quote. that s what he says in 1814 as the drilling has started. a month later, however, coburn changed his mind upon noticing how well the new recruits responded to
in the chesapeake and make it far more effective and destructive to the americans than had been their operation in 1813, when they did not have the same level of support and assistance from black americans. now, this is an image that is produced. i m going to get this magic arrow out of the way, which is not part of the original image. you may recognize this structure. it s the u.s. capitol building. this was produced in 1817 by a critic of american slavery, an american critic of american slavery named jesse torrey and jesse torrey wants you to think about the destruction of the capitol building and wants you to draw certain conclusions from it and those conclusions that he wants you to reach are indicated by the other figures he s put in this particular engraving. you can see down here in this right foreground, a group of enslaved african-americans, a slave coffle. washington, d.c., was a slave fss a major center for the interstate slave trade of the united states, which i
enough to write a vast symphonic work, to inspire a magnificent novel and bring down a great emperor. on this day of battle more russians died than were killed or would die of illness in the whole of the war of 1812 on all sides. this really was a titanic clash of two emporers and two vast armies numbering close on 200,000 men each. the war of 1812 would not be fought by armies of 200,000 men. in fact, it wouldn t be fought by 200,000 men all told. as 1813 began james madison knew that napoleon had lost. his army was in full retreat. indeed, it was in complete collapse. he had taken his country to war on the premise the french would win. they had lost. now what was going to happen? this also took the pressure off brittain and it released naval reinforcements from the british fleet in the baltic which had been keeping it open for trade the previous five years. those ships and key personnel were moved across to the north american station. the british picked out the right ships
considerations. he was well aware of balancing the different branches of the government and he never lost site of his state as all politicians of his generation took the same ground. he had a much more flexible conception of the constitution. especially when the nation faced difficult conditions that demanded solutions. he understood are that the federal system was fragmented. and preserving the union required negotiation. the war of 1812 was as we said an example of the competing interests in different parts of the union. and in many ways it didn t succeed. westerners made off better than the other regions they didn t get additional land from canada but as john stag mentioned they did get a lot of land from native americans. the english did not end impressment of sailors because of any pressure the united states had put on them they did it when they chose to do so. the war are had been waged by a union of regional republics with a loose allegiance to a different government,
and the colonial marines is a e unit that resembles on a much m smaller scale the union color regiments of the civil war in that the officers are white men, but the enlisted men and the ncos are african-americans. and they are being attracted into the service because they r not being compelled to it, and indeed, as far as we can tell, f most of the runaways, indeed, tl including most of the men, don t choose to be colonial marines. h some may end up as sailors or ms others work more informally as guides. many women worked as laundresses and nurses.hem some of them are serving as paid servants for british officers rh and others go to work for the ts dockyard in bermuda. so there s a whole range of roles, and it is a subset of the men who are serving in the colonial marines and they re not compelled to do this, though aro there is a great deal of t persuasion applied to encourage them to serve.by the and they are attracted by the fact they will be paid, they re will receive dec