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category: Social Science
published: Feb 2016
ISBN:9780774832298
publisher: UBC Press

North to Bondage

Loyalist Slavery in the Maritimes

by Harvey Amani Whitfield

tagged: slavery, pre-confederation (to 1867), black studies (global)
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.

About the Author

Harvey Amani Whitfield

Contributor Notes

Harvey Amani Whitfield is an associate professor of history at the University of Vermont and the author of Blacks on the Border: The Black Refugees in British North America, 1815–1860 and The Problem of Slavery in Early Vermont, 1777–1810.

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