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Books, Maps & Other Resources  United Empire Loyalists American Revolutionary War Genealogy & History More Canadian Resources | More American Resources More Loyalist Resources | More American Revolution Resources BOOK - The Black Loyalists- The Search for a Promised Land in Nova Scotia and Sierra Leone 1783 - 1870. by James W. ST. G. Walker. 
There is in Canada a myth that the Loyalists who left the United States for Canada after the American Revolution were upper-class citizens, devoted to British ideals, who transplanted the best of colonial American society to British North America. That they were white goes, in such a myth, without saying. But in reality more than ten per cent of the Loyalists who came to the Maritime provinces were black; most had been slaves. This is the story of one group of Black Loyalists who came but but did not stay.In Nova Scotia the Black Loyalists encountered hardship, hostility, and broken promises. James Walker documents their expense in Canada, and then follows them across the Atlantic as they became part of a unique colonial enterprise in Sierra Leone. The first Africans to live under extended British rule, they were also the first to offer an ideological challenge to alien white domination. Theirs is a story of human as well as historical interest. 438 pp., Soft Cover, 6" x 9", 1992, ISBN 0-8020-7402-2.
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