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Face Zion Forward First Writers of the Black Atlantic 17851798 - The Northeastern Library of Black Literature
Author: Joanna Brooks, John Saillant
At the close of the Revolutionary War, more than 3,000 black Loyalists, many liberated from slavery by enlisting in the British army, made exodus in 1783 from New York to Nova Scotia in search of land and freedom. Almost half of the emigrants settled an independent black community at Birchtown, Nova Scotia, where, despite extraordinarily harsh c...  more »
ISBN-13: 9781555535391
ISBN-10: 1555535399
Publication Date: 10/17/2002
Pages: 256
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Publisher: Northeastern
Book Type: Paperback
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