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Author : James W. St. G. Walker
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1992-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0802074022
The Black Loyalists depicts the unique expressions of the Black Loyalist identity to Nova Scotia and Sierra Leone.
Author : Ruth Holmes Whithead
Publisher : Nimbus+ORM
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2014-04-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781771080170
“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 : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2015-02
Category : History
ISBN : 177108166X
A children's book about Nova Scotia's Black settlement of Birchtown.
Author : Stephen Davidson
Publisher : Formac Publishing Company
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2019-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781459505568
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 : Canadian Authors Association. Nova Scotia Branch
Publisher : Hantsport, N.S. : Lancelot Press
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105039912287
Author : Harvey Amani Whitfield
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1584656069
A study of the emergence of community among African Americans in Nova Scotia.
Author : Lawrence Hill
Publisher : Random House
Page : 511 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780552775489
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 : Ruth Holmes Whitehead
Publisher : [Halifax] : Nova Scotia Museum
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : African American loyalists
ISBN : WISC:89121627038
"Over 2000 Blacks came to Nova Scotia with the fleet from New York City [in 1783]. Sir Guy Carleton, commander-in-chief of the British Army, ordered the listing of these people, their age, appearance, family members, previous owners and places of residence, in a record called the 'Book of Negroes.'"--Introduction.
Author : Carmelita Robertson,Nova Scotia Museum. History Section
Publisher : [Halifax] : Nova Scotia Museum
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : African American loyalists
ISBN : WISC:89121626758
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.
Author : Sharon Robart-Johnson
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2009-11-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781459710207
This extensively researched history traces the lives of black families of the Yarmouth area of Nova Scotia who, still enslaved at the time, arrived with the influx of black loyalists and landed in Shelburne in 1783.
Author : Stephen Davidson
Publisher : Formac Publishing Company
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781459506169
Some Black Loyalists who arrived in New Brunswick, abandoned freedom and became indentured, for guarantees of stability and security in a new, unknown land.
Author : Harvey Amani Whitfield
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2016-02-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780774832311
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 : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : African American loyalists
ISBN : OCLC:228964419
Author : John W. Pulis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135650308
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.
Author : Boston King,Ruth Holmes Whitehead,Carmelita Robertson,Nova Scotia Museum
Publisher : Halifax, N.S. : Nova Scotia Museum and Nimbus Pub.
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : African American loyalists
ISBN : 1551094517
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.