Freedom and Resistance: A Social History of Black Loyalists in

Freedom and Resistance: A Social History of Black Loyalists in the Bahamas (Contested Boundaries)

After the American Revolution, enslaved and free blacks who had been loyal to the British cause arrived in the Bahamas, drawn by British promises of liberty and land. Freedom and Resistance shows how Black Loyalists struggled to find freedom, clashing with white loyalists who tried either to bind them to illegal indentured contracts or to enslave them.

Despite these challenges, Black Loyalists made significant contributions to Bahamian society. They advanced ideas of civil liberty through political activism and armed resistance, built churches and schools that became the foundations of self-reliant black communities, and participated in the emerging market economy.

Christopher Curry highlights the complex ways in which Black Loyalists transplanted and re-inscribed traditions from colonial America into new host societies and in doing so dynamically refashioned their identities and institutions. By comparing the experiences of these Bahamians to those of other Black Loyalist communities in Jamaica and Nova Scotia, he adds a new global dimension to the freedom struggle that spread from the American Revolution.

A volume in the series Contested Boundaries, edited by Gene Allen Smith
Country USA
Brand University Press of Florida
Manufacturer University Press of Florida
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 9780813064871
ReleaseDate 2018-08-31
UnitCount 1
Format Illustrated
EANs 9780813064871

Country	USA
Brand	University Press of Florida
Manufacturer	University Press of Florida
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	9780813064871
ReleaseDate	2018-08-31
UnitCount	1
Format	Illustrated
EANs	9780813064871

Freedom and Resistance: A Social History of Black Loyalists in the Bahamas (Contested Boundaries)

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