The Black Loyalists
The Search for a Promised Land in Nova Scotia and Sierra Leone 1783-1870
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3913013 |
|---|---|
| Authors | John D Hargreaves, James W St G Walker |
| Year | 1977 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 298 |
| Publication date | 1977-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The International Journal of African Historical Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0361-7882 • E-ISSN: 2326-3016 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/217354 |
| OpenAlex | W1966492026 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 32 |
There is a Canadian myth about the Loyalists who left the United States after the American Revolution for Canada. The myth says they were white, upper-class citizens devoted to British ideals, transplanting the best of colonial American society to British North America. In reality, more than 10 per cent of the Loyalists who came to the Maritime provinces were black and had been slaves. The Black Loyalists tells the story of one such group who came to Nova Scotia, but didn't stay. James Walker documents their experience in Canada, following them across the Atlantic as they became part of a unique colonial experiment in Sierra Leone
Archaeology · Ethnology · Geography · Nova scotia · Political science · Sierra leone · Canadian Identity and History · Engineering · History
Africana Religious Studies
To Transplant in Alien Soil
Negotiating racial subjection
New Approaches to the Founding of the Sierra Leone Colony, 1786-1808
Transforming Caribbean and Canadian Identity
Black Loyalists and Black Slaves in Maritime Canada
Race, the Canadian Census, and Interactive Political Development
Race, Upper Canadian Constitutionalism and “British Justice”
Educational change in Sierra Leone
Powerful Stories
Reconstructing the Life Histories of Liberated Africans
The View from “White Man’s Bay”
Race and respectability in Victorian Halifax∗
Another British America
Indirect rule redux
Rebellion or riot
Colonizing the Black Atlantic
The Roots of Early Black Nationalism
Independence and Interdependence
The Black Church as a Social Welfare Institution
Black Canadian Historical Writing 1970-2006
So Seldom for Us, So Often Against Us
Food and Medicine by What Name? Ethnobotanical and Linguistic Diversity of Taro in Africa
Antiguan Methodism and Antislavery Activity
‘A Mixed Assemblage of Persons’
Multiculturalism as Second Reconstruction
A Society Made by History
The dissolution of Freetown City Council in 1926
The Schematic State
The Search for Independence
On Misunderstandings Arising from the Use of the Term 'Creole' in the Literature on Sierra Leone
The Speculative Freedom of Colonial Liberia
| Unique citing works | 32 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,68 |
| Citation span | 1979 - 2025 (47) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |