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Black Loyalists: Southern Settlers of Nova Scotia's First Free Black Communities
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Black Loyalists: Southern Settlers of Nova Scotia's First Free Black Communities Hardcover - 2013

by Ruth Holmes Whitehead

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Halifax: Nimbus Publishing, 2013. First edition. hardcover. very good/very good. 8vo. pp.240, previous owners name on FEP
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  • Title Black Loyalists: Southern Settlers of Nova Scotia's First Free Black Communities
  • Author Ruth Holmes Whitehead
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First edition
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 256
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Nimbus Publishing, Halifax
  • Date 2013
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Illustrated, Index, Maps, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 309255
  • ISBN 9781771080163 / 1771080167
  • Weight 1.25 lbs (0.57 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.26 x 6.44 x 0.92 in (23.52 x 16.36 x 2.34 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 18th Century
    • Chronological Period: 19th Century
    • Cultural Region: Canadian
    • Ethnic Orientation: African American
    • Geographic Orientation: Nova Scotia
    • Topical: Black History
  • Library of Congress subjects United States - History - Revolution,, Nova Scotia - History - 1784-1867
  • Dewey Decimal Code 971.600

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  • Publishers Weekly, 06/10/2013, Page 0
  • Quill & Quire, 06/01/2013, Page 33

About the author

p>The Black Loyalists illuminates a fascinating and moving episode of history I'd known nothing about. There are so many paradoxes, not least that black people should fight on the side of the King - for the promise of freedom - in the very war which Americans fought for independence. It was not an easy transition. Many of the men joined the Loyalist armies as soldiers. But what about families what about the women? The children? And what happened when the British surrendered? The American forces under George Washington demanded the restoration of property, including slaves, and it fell to individual British commanders to interpret orders and make decisions on whether to honour early promises. Some Black Loyalists were abandoned, but for those who made it Nova Scotia, there were still many challenges to face: home-building, earning a living, and coping with often hostile attitudes from local communities.

Ruth Holmes Whitehead took eighteen years to write and research this book which is both a work of scholarship and a labour of love, gracefully and clearly written with some poignant personal touches.

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