{"product_id":"blacks-on-the-border-the-black-refugees-in-british-north-america-1815-1860-9781584656067","title":"Blacks on the Border: The Black Refugees in British North America, 1815-1860","description":"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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University Press of New England\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/30\/2006\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781584656067\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 200\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.67lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.14h x 5.88w x 0.57d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eBlack Issues Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/01\/2006 pg. 29\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Harvey Whitfield","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43067699396789,"sku":"9781584656067","price":23.76,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_6411ed2b-b61c-48ec-85ce-806aadcdb993.jpg?v=1690863396","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/blacks-on-the-border-the-black-refugees-in-british-north-america-1815-1860-9781584656067","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}