Moving on: Black Loyalists in the Afro-Atlantic World

ISBN-13: 9780815327486 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 248 str.

John W. Pulis

Opis

Eight essays, perhaps from a June 1995 conference in Ann Arbor, recount specific stories and examine themes associated with African-Americans who sided with the British during the US war for independence. Among their perspectives are their military role in the war, history and material culture, blac

Spis treści

Acknowledgements * List of Contributors * Introduction * The Black Pioneers and Others: The military role of Black Loyalists in the American War for Independence, Todd W. Braisted * Hidden from History: Black Loyalists at Country Harbor Novia Scotia, Carole Troxler * Birchtown: The History and Material Culture of an Expatriate African American Community, Laird Niven and Stephen A. Davis * Black Loyalists in London after the American Revolution, Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina * The Black Loyalists in Sierra Leone, Wallace Brown * The Promised Land: Company-Repatriate Relations During the Founding of Freetown, Sierra Leone, Claude A. Clegg * Edward Jones: An African American in Sierra Leone, Nemata Blyden * Bridging Troubled Waters: Moses Baker, George Liele, and the African American Diaspora to Jamaica, John W. Pulis * Index

O autorze

Pulis, John W.