Black Loyalists
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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 Black Loyalists
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Author : James W. St. G. Walker
language : en
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Release Date : 1992-01-01
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 1992-01-01 with History categories.
The Black Loyalists depicts the unique expressions of the Black Loyalist identity to Nova Scotia and Sierra Leone.
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
Moving On
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Author : John W. Pulis
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-09-13
Moving On written by John W. Pulis and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09-13 with History categories.
During the American Revolution tens of thousands of colonists loyal to Britain left the colonies and resettled in Canada, Britain, and the Carribean. Among them were a substantial number of black loyalists. This groundbreaking study explores the lives, struggles, and politics of black loyalists who dispersed throughout the Atlantic region, including Canada, Britain, Sierra Leone, and Jamaica. The struggles of these populations, a diaspora within a diaspora, for political and economic independence under various British colonial regimes highlight the variety of challenges which faced black loyalists in the Afro-Atlantic World.
Black Loyalists In New Brunswick
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Author : Stephen Davidson
language : en
Publisher: Formac Publishing Company
Release Date : 2020-10-13
Black Loyalists In New Brunswick 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 2020-10-13 with History categories.
Some Black Loyalists who arrived in New Brunswick, abandoned freedom and became indentured, for guarantees of stability and security in a new, unknown land.
Moving On
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Author : John W. Pulis
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-09-13
Moving On written by John W. Pulis and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09-13 with History categories.
First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
From Slavery To Freetown
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Author : Mary Louise Clifford
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2015-08-31
From Slavery To Freetown written by Mary Louise Clifford and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-08-31 with Social Science categories.
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.
The Revolution And Black Loyalists
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Author : Julie Kentner
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019-07-15
The Revolution And Black Loyalists written by Julie Kentner and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-07-15 with categories.
Freedom And Resistance
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Author : Christopher Curry
language : en
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Release Date : 2018-08-23
Freedom And Resistance written by Christopher Curry and has been published by University Press of Florida this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-08-23 with History categories.
After the American Revolution, enslaved and free blacks who had been loyal to the British cause arrived in the Bahamas, drawn by British promises of liberty and land. Freedom and Resistance shows how Black Loyalists struggled to find freedom, clashing with white loyalists who tried either to bind them to illegal indentured contracts or to enslave them. Despite these challenges, Black Loyalists made significant contributions to Bahamian society. They advanced ideas of civil liberty through political activism and armed resistance, built churches and schools that became the foundations of self-reliant black communities, and participated in the emerging market economy. Christopher Curry highlights the complex ways in which Black Loyalists transplanted and re-inscribed traditions from colonial America into new host societies and in doing so dynamically refashioned their identities and institutions. By comparing the experiences of these Bahamians to those of other Black Loyalist communities in Jamaica and Nova Scotia, he adds a new global dimension to the freedom struggle that spread from the American Revolution. A volume in the series Contested Boundaries, edited by Gene Allen Smith
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.