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Black Loyalists : southern settlers of Nova Scotia's first free black communities / Ruth Holmes Whitehead.
- Title
- Black Loyalists : southern settlers of Nova Scotia's first free black communities / Ruth Holmes Whitehead.
- Author
- Whitehead, Ruth Holmes
- Publication
- Halifax, NS : Nimbus Pub., c2013.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | F1035.N3 W55 2013 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xiv, 240 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.); 24 cm.
- Summary
- 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.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references ([223]-229 p.) and index.
- Additional Formats (note)
- Issued also in electronic formats.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- 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.
- ISBN
- 1771080167 (hbk)
- 9781771080163
- OCLC
- 823506283
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library