“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
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.
WILLIAMS , ERIC , Capitalism and Slavery , New York , 1944 . WILLIAMS , GEORGE W. , History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880 ( Negroes as Slaves , as Soldiers and as Citizens ) , 2 vols . , New York , 1882–83 .
The lives of eight African Americans in colonial New Brunswick 1783-1834 Stephen Davidson. Loyalists' frustration. John Cuthbert, who had been a Baptist elder in Birchtown, Nova Scotia, was made the rebellion's judicial officer.
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.
38 On July 19, 1782, in perhaps the largest direct reference to Tory slaves, however, Leslie wrote to Carleton of “the request of Sir James Wright and the inhabitants [of Charlestown] to desire Capt. Swiney to supply shipping to ...
In Birchtown and the Black Loyalists, Wanda Taylor recounts the incredible story of the Black Loyalists of Birchtown for young readers.
This book chronicles experiences of African Americans who were part of the influx of Loyalist refugees from the American Revolution.
A volume in the series Contested Boundaries, edited by Gene Allen Smith
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The Black Loyalist Directory: African Americans in Exile After the American Revolution