Birchtown And The Black Loyalist Experience
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Birchtown And The Black Loyalist Experience
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Author : Stephen Davidson
language : en
Publisher: Formac Publishing Company
Release Date : 2019-05-31
Birchtown And The Black Loyalist Experience written by Stephen Davidson and has been published by Formac Publishing Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-05-31 with History categories.
This book chronicles experiences of African Americans who were part of the influx of Loyalist refugees from the American Revolution. The Black Loyalists were both freed and enslaved Black Americans who had joined the British side. For their loyalty, they were evacuated by the British Navy to Nova Scotia, where they were to receive freedom, land, and provisions. The Black Loyalists landed at a settlement named Birchtown, adjoining the white Loyalist town of Shelburne. On arrival they found virtually no shelter. Many died and others only survived by digging small holes in the ground and fixing logs over top for makeshift huts. Food was extremely scarce. White Loyalists quickly received their land and provisions. It was years before the Black Loyalists received their land grants, and not everyone got a plot. The lands provided proved to be rocky and hard to cultivate. Ultimately many Black Loyalists chose to leave Nova Scotia to go to Sierra Leone, West Africa, founding a new settlement there. Others remained, and their descendants are found in communities across Nova Scotia and beyond. Through images, artifacts, and text, this book tells the story of Birchtown and its residents as well as the larger story of Black Loyalist history, reflecting the research and exhibits in the Black Loyalist Heritage Centre in Birchtown.
Black Loyalists In New Brunswick
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Author : Stephen Davidson
language : en
Publisher: James Lorimer & Company
Release Date : 2020-10-13
Black Loyalists In New Brunswick written by Stephen Davidson and has been published by James Lorimer & Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-10-13 with History categories.
Among the Loyalists who were transported to the shores of New Brunswick by the British after their defeat by revolutionary Americans were several hundred African Americans. Like their counterparts who went to what is now Nova Scotia, among this group were formerly enslaved men, women and children who had been granted their freedom in exchange for joining the British side during the revolutionary war. In the colony that soon became New Brunswick, slavery was still legal. Many African American Loyalists had to become indentured labourers to survive in this new situation. Many others took up the opportunity offered them in 1791 to move yet again, this time to Sierra Leone in Africa where many Black Loyalists established a new colony on the coast of Africa where they lived free of slavery. The stories of New Brunswicks Black Loyalists are captured in the brief biographies of eight individuals—men, women and youths—presented by author Stephen Davidson. Through their experiences a picture emerges of the narrow limits to the freedom which the Black Loyalists were able to experience in a predominantly white and highly racist colony.
The Book Of Negroes
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Author : Lawrence Hill
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2009-02-01
The Book Of Negroes written by Lawrence Hill and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-02-01 with Fiction categories.
'A beautiful, compelling artifice, spun from unspeakably savage facts . . . a fiction that faces the terrible truth about slavery' The Times WINNER OF THE COMMONWEALTH PRIZE FOR FICTION Based on a true story, Lawrence Hill's epic novel spans three continents and six decades to bring to life a dark and shameful chapter in our history through the story of one brave and resourceful woman. Abducted from her West African village at the age of eleven and sold as a slave in the American South, Aminata Diallo thinks only of freedom - and of finding her way home again. After escaping the plantation, torn from her husband and child, she passes through Manhattan in the chaos of the Revolutionary War, is shipped to Nova Scotia, and then joins a group of freed slaves on a harrowing return odyssey to Africa. What readers are saying: ***** 'Beautifully written ... an enlightening read' ***** 'Since reading, this has become my favourite book ever' ***** 'A powerful historical account of an incredible woman's journey'
Black Loyalists Of Nova Scotia
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Author : Carmelita Robertson
language : en
Publisher: [Halifax] : Nova Scotia Museum
Release Date : 2000
Black Loyalists Of Nova Scotia written by Carmelita Robertson and has been published by [Halifax] : Nova Scotia Museum this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with African American loyalists categories.
The preface of this report reviews the two-year project entitled Remembering Black Loyalists, Black Communities that researched the earliest group of Blacks to migrate to Nova Scotia. The main section traces the history of those Black Loyalists who were granted 3,000 acres of land at Tracadie, Nova Scotia, in 1787. The first chapter contains biographies of those persons listed in the Book of Negroes, an inventory of all Blacks aboard British vessels who were legally permitted to leave New York. Chapter two contains the limited information (name & whether a man, woman, or child) found in the Loyalist muster roll of Chedabucto Negroes, 1776-1785. The third chapter examines the 1787 Tracadie land grant documents, including the processes taking place before the grant, a list of who was granted land, and where the land was located. Appendices include a list of name variations of Tracadie land grantees, a list of ships departing for Port Mouton, Nova Scotia in 1783, and an origin distribution chart of Black Loyalists of Port Mouton. Includes name index.
Black Loyalists
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Author : Ruth Holmes Whithead
language : en
Publisher: Nimbus+ORM
Release Date : 2014-04-25
Black Loyalists written by Ruth Holmes Whithead and has been published by Nimbus+ORM this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-04-25 with History categories.
“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
Loyalists In Nova Scotia
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Author : Canadian Authors Association. Nova Scotia Branch
language : en
Publisher: Hantsport, N.S. : Lancelot Press
Release Date : 1983
Loyalists In Nova Scotia written by Canadian Authors Association. Nova Scotia Branch and has been published by Hantsport, N.S. : Lancelot Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Running From Bondage
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Author : Karen Cook Bell
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2021-07
Running From Bondage written by Karen Cook Bell and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-07 with History categories.
A compelling examination of the ways enslaved women fought for their freedom during and after the Revolutionary War.
Birchtown And The Black Loyalists
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Author : Wanda Lauren Taylor
language : en
Publisher: Nimbus Pub Limited
Release Date : 2015-02
Birchtown And The Black Loyalists written by Wanda Lauren Taylor and has been published by Nimbus Pub Limited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-02 with History categories.
A children's book about Nova Scotia's Black settlement of Birchtown.
The Black Loyalists
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Author : James W. St. G. Walker
language : en
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Release Date : 2017-06-22
The Black Loyalists written by James W. St. G. Walker and has been published by University of Toronto Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-06-22 with History categories.
There is a Canadian myth about the Loyalists who left the United States after the American Revolution for Canada. The myth says they were white, upper-class citizens devoted to British ideals, transplanting the best of colonial American society to British North America. In reality, more than 10 per cent of the Loyalists who came to the Maritime provinces were black and had been slaves. The Black Loyalists tells the story of one such group who came to Nova Scotia, but didn't stay. James Walker documents their experience in Canada, following them across the Atlantic as they became part of a unique colonial experiment in Sierra Leone.
The Life Of Boston King
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Author : Boston King
language : en
Publisher: Halifax, N.S. : Nova Scotia Museum and Nimbus Pub.
Release Date : 2003
The Life Of Boston King written by Boston King and has been published by Halifax, N.S. : Nova Scotia Museum and Nimbus Pub. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with African American loyalists categories.
In the summer of 1783, at the end of the American Revolution, several thousand Black men, women and children left New York City with the British Army, bound by ship for Nova Scotia. Now uniformly called "Black Loyalists", regardless of their status at leaving New York, theirs is a rich and fascinating history. One of the most well-documented of these Black Loyalists was a man named Boston King, born a slave to Richard Waring, a rice-planter in South Carolina. King experienced a religious revelation while in Nova Scotia, and became a Methodist preacher; he went to Sierra Leone in 1792 to spread the Gospel; and from there was invited to England to study at a Methodist school. While there, he wrote the story of his life and conversion. This was published in the Methodist Magazine of the times. Thus survived one of only three autobiographies of a Black Loyalist, full of details of the Loyalist settlement of Nova Scotia. It is reprinted here as "Memoirs of the Life of Boston King, a Black Preacher," edited by Ruth Holmes Whitehead and Carmelita Robertson. An introduction by Ruth Holmes Whitehead presents new research findings about King's life, and her Afterword examines particularly his life as a slave on the Waring Plantation, near Charleston, SC. Whitehead and Robertson revisited the ruins of two Waring plantations, where King would have worked as a child and young man, and photographed the dirt road, still running through one plantation, down which he would have ridden away to freedom.