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 SmithDespite 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 SmithFreedom and Resistance: A Social History of Black Loyalists in the Bahamas
268Freedom and Resistance: A Social History of Black Loyalists in the Bahamas
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ISBN-13: | 9780813054476 |
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Publisher: | University Press of Florida |
Publication date: | 04/25/2017 |
Series: | Contested Boundaries |
Pages: | 268 |
Product dimensions: | 6.10(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.90(d) |