The Black Loyalists : The Search for a Promised Land in Nova Scotia and Sierra Leone, 1783-1870 /
Walker, James W. St. G.
The Black Loyalists : The Search for a Promised Land in Nova Scotia and Sierra Leone, 1783-1870 / James W. St. G. Walker. - 1 online resource (438 p.) : 6 b&w illustrations, 4 b&w tables - RICH: Reprints in Canadian History .
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
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.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9781442671447
10.3138/9781442671447 doi
African American loyalists--Nova Scotia.
African American loyalists--Sierra Leone.
African Americans--Colonization--History--Nova Scotia--18th century.
African Americans--Colonization--History--Sierra Leone--18th century.
Black people--Legal status, laws, etc.--History.--Ontario
Black people--History.--Nova Scotia
Black people--Social conditions.--Ontario
Black people--History.--Sierra Leone
Discrimination in criminal justice administration--History.--Ontario
Race discrimination--History.--Ontario
HISTORY / Canada / General.
DT516.7 / .W33 1999
966.4/00496073
The Black Loyalists : The Search for a Promised Land in Nova Scotia and Sierra Leone, 1783-1870 / James W. St. G. Walker. - 1 online resource (438 p.) : 6 b&w illustrations, 4 b&w tables - RICH: Reprints in Canadian History .
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
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.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9781442671447
10.3138/9781442671447 doi
African American loyalists--Nova Scotia.
African American loyalists--Sierra Leone.
African Americans--Colonization--History--Nova Scotia--18th century.
African Americans--Colonization--History--Sierra Leone--18th century.
Black people--Legal status, laws, etc.--History.--Ontario
Black people--History.--Nova Scotia
Black people--Social conditions.--Ontario
Black people--History.--Sierra Leone
Discrimination in criminal justice administration--History.--Ontario
Race discrimination--History.--Ontario
HISTORY / Canada / General.
DT516.7 / .W33 1999
966.4/00496073