p...a fascinating and well-told story of the American Revolution in South Carolina-and of its ramifications across racial and national boundaries. -Walter Edgar, author of emSouth Carolina A HistoryemstrongppbrppThe author brings to life the challenges and opportunities that the American Revolution brought to African Americans in the South in this engaging account of a free black man's wartime experience and postwar friendship with a British officer he rescued from the battlefield. -Jim Piecuch, author of emThree Peoples, One King Loyalists, Indians, and Slaves in the Revolutionary South emstrongppbrppUntil publication of this book, virtually nothing was known about Tony Small, the African American from South Carolina who helped further an existing revolutionary spirit of liberty in Ireland as much as Lafayette did in France. For the first time, Robert Black brings Small to life in a work of creative nonfiction that includes his influence upon Lord Edward Fitzgerald, the military comma