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Black Loyalists
Ruth Holmes Whithead
其他書名
Southern Settlers of Nova Scotia's First Free Black Communities
出版Nimbus+ORM, 2014-04-25
主題History / African American & BlackHistory / United States / Revolutionary Period (1775-1800)History / Canada / Pre-Confederation (to 1867)
ISBN17710801759781771080170
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=m3EnEAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋“Engaging and steeped in years of research . . . a must read for all who care about the intersection of Canadian, American, British, and African history.” —Lawrence Hill, award-winning author of Someone Knows My Name

In an attempt to ruin the American economy during the Revolutionary War, the British government offered freedom to slaves who would desert their rebel masters. Many Black men and women escaped to the British fleet patrolling the East Coast, or to the British armies invading the colonies from Maine to Georgia.

After the final surrender of the British to the Americans, New York City was evacuated by the British Army throughout the summer and fall of 1783. Carried away with them were a vast number of White Loyalists and their families, and over 3,000 Black Loyalists: free, indentured, apprenticed, or still enslaved. More than 2,700 Black people came to Nova Scotia with the fleet from New York City.

Black Loyalists strives to present hard data about the lives of Nova Scotia Black Loyalists before they escaped slavery in early South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida, and after they settled in Nova Scotia—to tell the little-known story of some very brave and enterprising men and women who survived the chaos of the American Revolution, people who found a way to pass through the heart, ironically, of a War for Liberty, to find their own liberty and human dignity.

Includes historical images and documents