North to Bondage: Loyalist Slavery in the Maritimes
North to Bondage traces the transition and movement of black people from slavery in the United States to continued slavery in the Maritimes. It is not an optimistic story of slavery to freedom but rather a narrative about forced migration, displacement, and the expansion of slavery in the British Empire.
Piecing together fragments of the archival record – drawn from court documents, newspaper articles, government documents, and oral narratives – Harvey Amani Whitfield illuminates how slaves drew upon kinship networks and found strength in traditions of survival and resistance to fight for freedom in New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island.
Harvey Amani Whitfield is a professor of United States and Canadian History at the University of Calgary.
Other publications from this author include:
- Black Slavery in the Maritimes: A History in Documents (2018)
- "The African Diaspora in Atlantic Canada: History, Historians, and Historiography" in Acadiensis: Journal of the History of the Atlantic Region (2017)
- The Problem of Slavery in Early Vermont, 1777-1810 (2014)
- Blacks on the Border: The Black Refugees in British North America, 1815–1860 (2006)
- From American slaves to Nova Scotian subjects : the case of the Black refugees, 1813-1840 (2005)
- "African and New World African Immigration to Mainland Nova Scotia, 1749-1816" in Journal of the Royal Nova Scotia Historical Society, 7 (2004)
- "Black Refugee Communities in Early Nineteenth Century Nova Scotia" in Journal of the Royal Nova Scotia Historical Society, 6 (2003)