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From Slavery to Freetown
Mary Louise Clifford
其他書名
Black Loyalists After the American Revolution
出版McFarland, 1999
主題History / Africa / WestHistory / United States / GeneralHistory / United States / Revolutionary Period (1775-1800)History / United States / 19th CenturyHistory / African American & BlackSocial Science / Ethnic Studies / American / African American & Black StudiesSocial Science / Emigration & ImmigrationSocial Science / Slavery
ISBN07864061519780786406159
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=c95yAAAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋During the American Revolution over 3,000 persons of African descent were promised freedom by the British if they would desert their American rebel masters and serve the loyalist cause. Those who responded to this promise found refuge in New York. In 1783, after Britain lost the war, they were evacuated to Nova Scotia, where for a decade they were treated as cheap labor by the white loyalists. In 1792 they were finally offered a new home in West Africa; over 1,200 responded and became the founders of Freetown in Sierra Leone. This history follows ten of these freed slaves from their escape from masters in Virginia and the Carolinas to their sojourn in wartime New York, their evacuation to Nova Scotia and finally their exodus to Freetown, where they struggled for another decade for not only freedom and dignity but the right to worship as they choose, make an honest living, and govern themselves.