Two Sams, based on historical documents and oral history, traces the journey of an African-American family from slavery in Rhode Island and Virginia, through the American Revolution, and on to the hardships of life as Black Loyalists in colonial Nova Scotia.
Sam the father tells the story from the family's time in slavery, escape to freedom, and participation on the British side in the American War of Independence. After the war, when the family has moved to the British colony of Nova Scotia, Sam the son takes up the tale, when the Black Loyalists have to try to survive with little food, poor housing, few tools, and persistent white racism.
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Höhe: 229 mm
Breite: 152 mm
Dicke: 14 mm
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978-1-998149-29-2 (9781998149292)
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Sharon Robart-Johnson has a rich cultural background comprised of both African and European ancestry. Her European roots reach beyond the Expulsion of the Acadians in 1755, to the arrival of the Black Loyalists in Shelburne in 1783, and to a slave who was brought to Digby County, Nova Scotia in 1798. Born in the South End of Yarmouth, she is a thirteenth-generation Nova Scotian. Her passion for researching Black history began in 1993 and has continued. In 2009 her first book, Africa's Children: A History of Blacks in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, was published; and in 2022 she published Jude and Diana, an historical novel which won Robbie Robertson Dartmouth Book Award for fiction. Sharon is a past member at large of the Board of Directors of the Yarmouth County Historical Society, which owns and operates the Yarmouth County Museum and Archives, and she has five years of archival experience.
