"Face Zion Forward": First Writers of the Black Atlantic, 1785-1798 (Northeastern Library of Black Literature)
By Unknown Author.
Description
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 conditions, they established their own churches and schools, and cultivated a shared sense of themselves as a chosen people. A majority of the population emigrated once again in 1791, this time setting sail for Sierra Leone to fulfill what they percei...
ISBN(s)
1555535399, 9781555535391
