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Since publication of The Black Loyalist Directory in 1996, the
primary component, The Book of Negroes, has become one of the
most-cited of American Revolutionary primary sources. This new
edition salutes The Book of Negroes by using the original title of
this famous accounting of Black freedom. On the surface, The Book
of Negroes is a laconic, ledger-style enumeration of 3,000
self-emancipated and free Blacks who departed as part of the
British evacuation of Loyalists from New York City in the summer
and fall of 1783 for Nova Scotia, England, Germany, and other parts
of the world. Created under orders from Sir Guy Carleton (Lord
Dorchester), Commander-in-Chief of British forces in North America,
to placate an angry George Washington, Commander-in-Chief of the
Continental Army (USA), who regarded the Black Loyalists as
fugitive slaves, The Book of Negroes is, as Alan Gilbert has
observed, a "roll of honor."
Republication on the twenty-fifth anniversary of “Pretends to Be
Free” recognizes the signal importance of its sterling
presentation of northern self-emancipation. Today, even more than a
quarter-century ago, these fugitive slave notices are the best
verbal snapshots of enslaved Americans before and during the
American Revolution. Through these notices, readers can discover
how enslaved blacks chose allegiance during our War for
Independence. Replete with a preface by Edward E. Baptist, the
leading scholar of slavery and capitalism and director of a massive
project aimed at digitalizing every escape notice, and with a new
Introduction and teacher’s guide by Graham Hodges, this new
edition makes this documentary study more relevant than ever.
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