The Black Loyalists : : The Search for a Promised Land in Nova Scotia and Sierra Leone, 1783-1870 / / James W. St. G. Walker.
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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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019] ©1993 |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | RICH: Reprints in Canadian History
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (438 p.) |
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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