Birchtown And The Black Loyalist Experience

Author : Stephen Davidson
Publisher : Formac Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 1459505565
Total Pages : 90 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Birchtown and the Black Loyalist Experience written by Stephen Davidson and published by Formac Publishing Company. This book was released on 2019-05-31 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book chronicles experiences of African Americans who were part of the influx of Loyalist refugees from the American Revolution. The Black Loyalists were both freed and enslaved Black Americans who had joined the British side. For their loyalty, they were evacuated by the British Navy to Nova Scotia, where they were to receive freedom, land, and provisions. The Black Loyalists landed at a settlement named Birchtown, adjoining the white Loyalist town of Shelburne. On arrival they found virtually no shelter. Many died and others only survived by digging small holes in the ground and fixing logs over top for makeshift huts. Food was extremely scarce. White Loyalists quickly received their land and provisions. It was years before the Black Loyalists received their land grants, and not everyone got a plot. The lands provided proved to be rocky and hard to cultivate. Ultimately many Black Loyalists chose to leave Nova Scotia to go to Sierra Leone, West Africa, founding a new settlement there. Others remained, and their descendants are found in communities across Nova Scotia and beyond. Through images, artifacts, and text, this book tells the story of Birchtown and its residents as well as the larger story of Black Loyalist history, reflecting the research and exhibits in the Black Loyalist Heritage Centre in Birchtown.

Author : Stephen Davidson
Publisher : James Lorimer & Company
ISBN 13 : 1459506170
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Black Loyalists in New Brunswick written by Stephen Davidson and published by James Lorimer & Company. This book was released on 2020-10-13 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among the Loyalists who were transported to the shores of New Brunswick by the British after their defeat by revolutionary Americans were several hundred African Americans. Like their counterparts who went to what is now Nova Scotia, among this group were formerly enslaved men, women and children who had been granted their freedom in exchange for joining the British side during the revolutionary war. In the colony that soon became New Brunswick, slavery was still legal. Many African American Loyalists had to become indentured labourers to survive in this new situation. Many others took up the opportunity offered them in 1791 to move yet again, this time to Sierra Leone in Africa where many Black Loyalists established a new colony on the coast of Africa where they lived free of slavery. The stories of New Brunswicks Black Loyalists are captured in the brief biographies of eight individuals—men, women and youths—presented by author Stephen Davidson. Through their experiences a picture emerges of the narrow limits to the freedom which the Black Loyalists were able to experience in a predominantly white and highly racist colony.

Author : Wanda Lauren Taylor
Publisher : Nimbus Pub Limited
ISBN 13 : 9781771081665
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.6X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Birchtown and the Black Loyalists written by Wanda Lauren Taylor and published by Nimbus Pub Limited. This book was released on 2015-02 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A children's book about Nova Scotia's Black settlement of Birchtown.

Author : James W. St. G. Walker
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802074027
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Black Loyalists written by James W. St. G. Walker and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1992-01-01 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Black Loyalists depicts the unique expressions of the Black Loyalist identity to Nova Scotia and Sierra Leone.

Author : Lawrence Hill
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0552775487
Total Pages : 511 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Book of Negroes written by Lawrence Hill and published by Random House. This book was released on 2010 with total page 511 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abducted from her West African village at the age of eleven and sold as a slave in the American South, Aminata Diallo thinks only of freedom - and of finding her way home again.After escaping the plantation, torn from her husband and child, she passes through Manhattan in the chaos of the Revolutionary War, is shipped to Nova Scotia, and then joins a group of freed slaves on a harrowing return odyssey to Africa. Lawrence Hill's epic novel, winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, spans three continents and six decades to bring to life a dark and shameful chapter in our history through the story of one brave and resourceful woman.

Author : Ruth Holmes Whithead
Publisher : Nimbus+ORM
ISBN 13 : 1771080175
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Black Loyalists written by Ruth Holmes Whithead and published by Nimbus+ORM. This book was released on 2014-04-25 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Engaging and steeped in years of research . . . a must read for all who care about the intersection of Canadian, American, British, and African history.” —Lawrence Hill, award-winning author of Someone Knows My Name In an attempt to ruin the American economy during the Revolutionary War, the British government offered freedom to slaves who would desert their rebel masters. Many Black men and women escaped to the British fleet patrolling the East Coast, or to the British armies invading the colonies from Maine to Georgia. After the final surrender of the British to the Americans, New York City was evacuated by the British Army throughout the summer and fall of 1783. Carried away with them were a vast number of White Loyalists and their families, and over 3,000 Black Loyalists: free, indentured, apprenticed, or still enslaved. More than 2,700 Black people came to Nova Scotia with the fleet from New York City. Black Loyalists strives to present hard data about the lives of Nova Scotia Black Loyalists before they escaped slavery in early South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida, and after they settled in Nova Scotia—to tell the little-known story of some very brave and enterprising men and women who survived the chaos of the American Revolution, people who found a way to pass through the heart, ironically, of a War for Liberty, to find their own liberty and human dignity. Includes historical images and documents

Author : Canadian Authors Association. Nova Scotia Branch
Publisher : Hantsport, N.S. : Lancelot Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Loyalists in Nova Scotia written by Canadian Authors Association. Nova Scotia Branch and published by Hantsport, N.S. : Lancelot Press. This book was released on 1983 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John W. Pulis
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9780815327486
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.8X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Moving on written by John W. Pulis and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1999 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Karen Cook Bell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108831540
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Running from Bondage written by Karen Cook Bell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-07 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compelling examination of the ways enslaved women fought for their freedom during and after the Revolutionary War.

Author : Boston King
Publisher : Halifax, N.S. : Nova Scotia Museum and Nimbus Pub.
ISBN 13 : 9781551094519
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Life of Boston King written by Boston King and published by Halifax, N.S. : Nova Scotia Museum and Nimbus Pub.. This book was released on 2003 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the summer of 1783, at the end of the American Revolution, several thousand Black men, women and children left New York City with the British Army, bound by ship for Nova Scotia. Now uniformly called "Black Loyalists", regardless of their status at leaving New York, theirs is a rich and fascinating history. One of the most well-documented of these Black Loyalists was a man named Boston King, born a slave to Richard Waring, a rice-planter in South Carolina. King experienced a religious revelation while in Nova Scotia, and became a Methodist preacher; he went to Sierra Leone in 1792 to spread the Gospel; and from there was invited to England to study at a Methodist school. While there, he wrote the story of his life and conversion. This was published in the Methodist Magazine of the times. Thus survived one of only three autobiographies of a Black Loyalist, full of details of the Loyalist settlement of Nova Scotia. It is reprinted here as "Memoirs of the Life of Boston King, a Black Preacher," edited by Ruth Holmes Whitehead and Carmelita Robertson. An introduction by Ruth Holmes Whitehead presents new research findings about King's life, and her Afterword examines particularly his life as a slave on the Waring Plantation, near Charleston, SC. Whitehead and Robertson revisited the ruins of two Waring plantations, where King would have worked as a child and young man, and photographed the dirt road, still running through one plantation, down which he would have ridden away to freedom.