Blacks on the Border - 9781584656067
Un libro in lingua di Whitfield Harvey Amani edito da Univ Pr of New England, 2006
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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.
Informazioni bibliografiche
- Titolo del Libro in lingua: Blacks on the Border
- Sottotitolo: The Black Refugees in British North America, 1815–1860
- Lingua: English
- Autore: Whitfield Harvey Amani
- Editore: Univ Pr of New England
- Collana: Univ Pr of New England (Paperback)
- Data di Pubblicazione: 01 Novembre '06
- Genere: SOCIAL SCIENCE
- Argomenti : African Americans Nova Scotia History 19th century African Americans Nova Scotia Social conditions 19th century Freedmen Nova Scotia History 19th century
- Pagine: 179
- Dimensioni mm: 228 x 152 x 12
- ISBN-10: 1584656069
- EAN-13: 9781584656067