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

by Ruth Holmes Whitehead

During the American Revolution (1775-1783), the British government offered freedom to slaves who would desert their rebel masters as a way of ruining the American economy. 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1771080167
• ISBN13: 9781771080163
• Release Date: May 2013
• Publisher: Nimbus Publishing (CN)
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.3"