The Book of Negroes by Graham Russell Gao Hodges, Alan Edward... - 9780823298808

Name: The Book of Negroes by Graham Russell Gao Hodges, Alan Edward... - 9780823298808
Brand: Fordham University Press

Fordham University Press

The Book of NegroesAfrican Americans in Exile After the American Revolution\nAuthor(s): Graham Russell Gao Hodges, Alan Edward Brown\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Fordham University Press, United States\nImprint: Fordham University Press\nISBN-13: 9780823298808, 978-0823298808\nSynopsis\nSince publication of The Black Loyalist Directory in 1996, the primary component, The Book of Negroes, has become one of the most-cited of American Revolutionary primary sources. This new edition salutes The Book of Negroes by using the original title of this famous accounting of Black freedom. On the surface, The Book of Negroes is a laconic, ledger-style enumeration of 3,000 self-emancipated and free Blacks who departed as part of the British evacuation of Loyalists from New York City in the summer and fall of 1783 for Nova Scotia, England, Germany, and other parts of the world. Created under orders from Sir Guy Carleton (Lord Dorchester), Commander-in-Chief of British forces in North America, to ""