The Black Loyalists: The Search for a Promised Land in Nova Scotia and Sierra Leone, 1783-1870

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...

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Main Author: Walker, James W. St. G. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Toronto University of Toronto Press [2019]
Series:RICH: Reprints in Canadian History
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Links:https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442671447
https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442671447
https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442671447
https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442671447
https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442671447
https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442671447
https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442671447
https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442671447
Summary: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
Item Description:Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Aug 2019)
Physical Description:1 online resource
ISBN:9781442671447
DOI:10.3138/9781442671447