The Black Loyalists : : The Search for a Promised Land in Nova Scotia and Sierra Leone, 1783-1870 / / James W. St. G. Walker.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
• VerfasserIn: Walker, James W. St. G.,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019]; ©1993
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: RICH: Reprints in Canadian History
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (438 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Preface to the 1992 Edition -- Abbreviations -- Chapter One. Origin of the Black Loyalists -- Chapter Two. Land and Settlement in Nova Scotia -- Chapter Three. Freedom Denied -- Chapter Four. Black Society in Loyalist Nova Scotia -- Chapter Five. Foundation of Sierra Leone -- Chapter Six. Black Exodus -- Chapter Seven. The Year of Jubilee -- Chapter Eight. A New Captivity -- Chapter Nine. The Promised Land -- Chapter Ten. Black Nationalism -- Chapter Eleven. Black and White -- Chapter Twelve. The Ransomed Sinners -- Chapter Thirteen. The Golden Age -- Chapter Fourteen. The Disinheritance -- Chapter Fifteen. Creoledom -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Index