num_pages: 192
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 Whitfields 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.
language: None
title: North to Bondage: Loyalist Slavery in the Maritimes
publisher: University of British Columbia Press