The Black Loyalists

Author : Ruth Holmes Whithead
Publisher : Nimbus+ORM
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2014-04-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781771080170

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Black Loyalists by Ruth Holmes Whithead Pdf

“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

Author : Wanda Lauren Taylor
Publisher : Nimbus Pub Limited
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2015-02
Category : History
ISBN : 177108166X

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Birchtown and the Black Loyalists by Wanda Lauren Taylor Pdf

A children's book about Nova Scotia's Black settlement of Birchtown.

Author : James W. St. G. Walker
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2017-06-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781487516963

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The Black Loyalists by James W. St. G. Walker Pdf

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.

Author : Stephen Davidson
Publisher : Formac Publishing Company
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781459505568

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Birchtown and the Black Loyalist Experience by Stephen Davidson Pdf

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.

Author : Christopher Curry
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2018-08-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813063652

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Freedom and Resistance by Christopher Curry Pdf

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

Author : Alan Gilbert
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2012-04-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226293073

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Black Patriots and Loyalists by Alan Gilbert Pdf

In this thought-provoking history, Gilbert illuminates how the fight for abolition and equality - not just for the independence of the few but for the freedom and self-government of the many - has been central to the American story from its inception."--Pub. desc.

Author : Stephen Davidson
Publisher : James Lorimer & Company
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781459506176

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Black Loyalists in New Brunswick by Stephen Davidson Pdf

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.

Author : Lawrence Hill
Publisher : Random House
Page : 511 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780552775489

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The Book of Negroes by Lawrence Hill Pdf

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. Lawrence Hill's epic novel, winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, 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.

Author : James W. St. G. Walker
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1992-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0802074022

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The Black Loyalists by James W. St. G. Walker Pdf

The Black Loyalists depicts the unique expressions of the Black Loyalist identity to Nova Scotia and Sierra Leone.

Author : Canadian Authors Association. Nova Scotia Branch
Publisher : Hantsport, N.S. : Lancelot Press
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105039912287

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Loyalists in Nova Scotia by Canadian Authors Association. Nova Scotia Branch Pdf

Author : Harvey Amani Whitfield
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1584656069

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Blacks on the Border by Harvey Amani Whitfield Pdf

A study of the emergence of community among African Americans in Nova Scotia.

Author : Maya Jasanoff
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2012-03-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781400075478

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Liberty's Exiles by Maya Jasanoff Pdf

NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER This groundbreaking book offers the first global history of the loyalist exodus to Canada, the Caribbean, Sierra Leone, India, and beyond. At the end of the American Revolution, sixty thousand Americans loyal to the British cause fled the United States and became refugees throughout the British Empire. Liberty’s Exiles tells their story. This surprising new account of the founding of the United States and the shaping of the post-revolutionary world traces extraordinary journeys like the one of Elizabeth Johnston, a young mother from Georgia, who led her growing family to Britain, Jamaica, and Canada, questing for a home; black loyalists such as David George, who escaped from slavery in Virginia and went on to found Baptist congregations in Nova Scotia and Sierra Leone; and Mohawk Indian leader Joseph Brant, who tried to find autonomy for his people in Ontario. Ambitious, original, and personality-filled, this book is at once an intimate narrative history and a provocative analysis that changes how we see the revolution’s “losers” and their legacies.

Author : Harvey Amani Whitfield
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2016-02-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780774832311

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North to Bondage by Harvey Amani Whitfield Pdf

Many Canadians believe their nation fell on the right side of history in harbouring escaped slaves from the United States. In fact, in the wake of the American Revolution, many Loyalist families brought slaves with them when they settled in the Maritime colonies of British North America. Once there, slaves used their traditions of survival, resistance, and kinship networks to negotiate their new reality. Harvey Amani Whitfield’s book, the first on slavery in the Maritimes, is a startling corrective to the enduring and triumphant narrative of Canada as a land of freedom at the end of the Underground Railroad.

Author : Mary Louise Clifford
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2015-08-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781476607221

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From Slavery to Freetown by Mary Louise Clifford Pdf

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.

Author : Rosemary Sadlier
Publisher : Kids Can Press Ltd
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2010-08
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781554535873

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The Kids Book of Black Canadian History by Rosemary Sadlier Pdf

Learn the important role Black Canadian's have played, and will continue to play, in the development of Canada.