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North to Bondage: Loyalist Slavery in the Maritimes
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Author/contributor
- Whitfield, Harvey Amani (Author)
Title
North to Bondage: Loyalist Slavery in the Maritimes
Abstract
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. --Publisher's description
Place
Vancouver
Publisher
UBC Press
Date
2016
# of Pages
viii, 181 pages: map
Language
English
ISBN
978-0-7748-3229-8
Short Title
North to Bondage
Library Catalog
Amazon
Extra
Book available at Internet Archive to people with print disabilities: https://archive.org/details/northtobondagelo0000whit
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Notes
Contents: Introduction: Slavery in the Maritime colonies -- Slavery and the American context -- Maritime slavery and Loyalist settlement -- Slave work -- The world of Maritime slaves and slaveholders -- Ending slavery -- Conclusion: Legacies of slavery -- Appendix A: Slave numbers -- Appendix B: Slave profiles.
Citation
Whitfield, H. A. (2016). North to Bondage: Loyalist Slavery in the Maritimes. UBC Press. https://www.ubcpress.ca/north-to-bondage
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