Blacks on the Border: The Black Refugees in British North America, 1815-1860 by Whitfield, Harvey

Blacks on the Border: The Black Refugees in British North America, 1815-1860

Following the American Revolution, free black communities and enslaved African Americans increasingly struggled to reconcile their African...
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Author: Harvey Whitfield
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Blacks on the Border: The Black Refugees in British North America, 1815-1860 by Whitfield, Harvey

Blacks on the Border: The Black Refugees in British North America, 1815-1860

CHF 64.78

Blacks on the Border: The Black Refugees in British North America, 1815-1860

CHF 64.78
Author: Harvey Whitfield
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Following the American Revolution, free black communities and enslaved African Americans increasingly struggled to reconcile their African heritage with their American home. This struggle resulted in tens of thousands of African Americans seeking new homes in areas as diverse as Haiti and Nova Scotia. Black refugees arrived in Nova Scotia after the War of 1812 with little in common but their desire for freedom. By 1860, they had formed families, communities, and traditions. Harvey Amani Whitfield's study reconstructs the lives and history of a sizeable but neglected group of African Americans by placing their history within the framework of free black communities in New England and Nova Scotia during the nineteenth century. It examines which aspects of American and African American culture black expatriates used or discarded in an area that forced them to negotiate the overlapping worlds of Great Britain, the United States, Afro-New England, and the African American Diaspora, while considering how former American slaves understood freedom long before the Civil War.

Author: Harvey Whitfield
Publisher: University Press of New England
Published: 11/30/2006
Pages: 200
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.67lbs
Size: 9.14h x 5.88w x 0.57d
ISBN: 9781584656067


Review Citation(s):
Black Issues Book Review 09/01/2006 pg. 29

About the Author
HARVEY AMANI WHITFIELD is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Vermont.

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