North to Bondage: Loyalist Slavery in the Maritimes

North to Bondage: Loyalist Slavery in the Maritimes
ISBN-10
0774832312
ISBN-13
9780774832311
Category
Social Science
Pages
188
Language
English
Published
2016-02-01
Publisher
UBC Press
Author
Harvey Amani Whitfield

Description

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 slavery in the Maritimes, is a startling corrective to the enduring and triumphant narrative of Canada as a land of freedom at the end of the Underground Railroad.

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