BLACK LOYALISTS : southern settlers of Nova Scotia's first free black Communities
by Ruth Holmes Whitehead
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 1771080167
- ISBN 13
- 9781771080163
- Seller
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Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada
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About This Item
[Portland, Or.]: Nimbus Publishing, 2013. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 8 vo,. cloth, dust jacket, xiv, 240 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour), maps (1 colour), portraits (1 colour), CONTENTS:The slave trade and the Province of Carolina -- Black life in eighteenth-century South Carolina and Georgia -- Profiles of seven Carolinian Black Loyalists -- Precursors to war and freedom -- War in South Carolina and Georgia, 1775-1780 -- War's end, 1781-1783 -- Leaving New York for Nova Scotia -- Life in Nova Scotia, 1783-1792 -- Contemporary Black Loyalist heritage initiatives. Black Loyalists is an attempt to present hard data about the lives of Black Loyalists before they escaped slavery in early South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida, and after they settled in Nova Scotia. This remarkable book brings back into our awareness the brave and enterprising men and women who survived the chaos of the American Revolution, people who found a way to liberty and human dignity. -- Book Jacket..
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- Bookseller
- Harry E Bagley Books Ltd
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 112557319
- Title
- BLACK LOYALISTS : southern settlers of Nova Scotia's first free black Communities
- Author
- Ruth Holmes Whitehead
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 1771080167
- ISBN 13
- 9781771080163
- Publisher
- Nimbus Publishing
- Place of Publication
- [Portland, Or.]
- Date Published
- 2013
- Size
- 8 vo,
- Keywords
- United States. Nova Scotia -- History -- 1775-1783. United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783.African American loyalists -- Nova Scotia. African American Loyalists Nova Scotia.Black loyalists -- Nova Scotia -- History. Black loyalists -- Nova Sco
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- History; Americana;
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Harry E Bagley Books Ltd
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Fredericton, New Brunswick
About Harry E Bagley Books Ltd
Mail order only. 51 years as a bookseller
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