The Book of Negroes: African Americans in Exile after the American Revolution

Since publication of The Black Loyalist Directory in 1996, the primary component, The Book of Negroes, has become one of the most-cited of American Revolutionary primary sources. This new edition salutes The Book of Negroes by using the original title of this famous accounting of Black freedom. On t...

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Weitere Verfasser: Brown, Alan Edward (HerausgeberIn), Hodges, Graham Russell 1946- (HerausgeberIn)
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York Fordham University Press 2021
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Zusammenfassung:Since publication of The Black Loyalist Directory in 1996, the primary component, The Book of Negroes, has become one of the most-cited of American Revolutionary primary sources. This new edition salutes The Book of Negroes by using the original title of this famous accounting of Black freedom. On the surface, The Book of Negroes is a laconic, ledger-style enumeration of 3,000 self-emancipated and free Blacks who departed as part of the British evacuation of Loyalists from New York City in the summer and fall of 1783 for Nova Scotia, England, Germany, and other parts of the world. Created under orders from Sir Guy Carleton (Lord Dorchester), Commander-in-Chief of British forces in North America, to placate an angry George Washington, Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army (USA), who regarded the Black Loyalists as fugitive slaves, The Book of Negroes is, as Alan Gilbert has observed, a "roll of honor.
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (LXIV, 318 Seiten) Illustrationen
ISBN:9780823298822
DOI:10.1515/9780823298822

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