North to Bondage
Subtitle: Loyalist Slavery in the Maritimes
Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780774832298
Subjects: Slavery, canada; African americans; Canada, race relations
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."--Provided by publisher.