North to Bondage: Loyalist Slavery in the Maritimes

by Harvey Amani Whitfield

Book Overview

Many Canadians believe their nation fell on the right side of history in harbouring escaped slaves from the United States. In fact, in the wake of the American Revolution, many Loyalist families brought slaves with them when they settled in the Maritime colonies of British North America. Once there, slaves used their traditions of survival, resistance, and kinship networks to negotiate their new reality. Harvey Amani Whitfield's book, the first on...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0774832282
• ISBN13: 9780774832281
• Release Date: February 2016
• Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"