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From Slavery to Freetown

From Slavery to Freetown
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Publisher : McFarland
Total Pages : 260
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ISBN-10 : 9781476607221
ISBN-13 : 1476607222
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Book Synopsis From Slavery to Freetown by : Mary Louise Clifford

Download or read book From Slavery to Freetown written by Mary Louise Clifford and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-08-31 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the American Revolution over 3,000 persons of African descent were promised freedom by the British if they would desert their American rebel masters and serve the loyalist cause. Those who responded to this promise found refuge in New York. In 1783, after Britain lost the war, they were evacuated to Nova Scotia, where for a decade they were treated as cheap labor by the white loyalists. In 1792 they were finally offered a new home in West Africa; over 1,200 responded and became the founders of Freetown in Sierra Leone. This history follows ten of these freed slaves from their escape from masters in Virginia and the Carolinas to their sojourn in wartime New York, their evacuation to Nova Scotia and finally their exodus to Freetown, where they struggled for another decade for not only freedom and dignity but the right to worship as they choose, make an honest living, and govern themselves.


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