Africa's Children

"Africa's Children", chronicling the history of Black families of the Yarmouth area of Nova Scotia, is a mirror image of the hopes & despairs & the achievements & injustices that mark the early stories of many African-Canadians. This extensively researched history traces the lives of those people, still enslaved at the time, who arrived with the influx of Black Loyalists & landed in Shelburne in 1783, as well as those who had come with their masters as early as 1767. Their migration to a new home did little to improve their overall living conditions, a situation that would persist for many years throughout Yarmouth County. By drawing on a comprehensive range of sources that include census & cemetery records, church & school histories, libraries, museums, oral histories, newspapers, wills, The Black Loyalist Directory, & many others, the author has written a history overlooked for far too long.