Book of Negroes
Overview
 
The Book of Negroes is an important historical document which records names and descriptions of 3,000 African-American slaves who escaped to the British lines during the American Revolution
Black Loyalist
A Black Loyalist was an inhabitant of British America of African descent who joined British colonial forces during the American Revolutionary War...

 and were evacuated by the British by ship to points in Nova Scotia
Nova Scotia
Nova Scotia is one of Canada's three Maritime provinces and is the most populous province in Atlantic Canada. The name of the province is Latin for "New Scotland," but "Nova Scotia" is the recognized, English-language name of the province. The provincial capital is Halifax. Nova Scotia is the...

 as freedmen.
African Americans who escaped to the British
Kingdom of Great Britain
The former Kingdom of Great Britain, sometimes described as the 'United Kingdom of Great Britain', That the Two Kingdoms of Scotland and England, shall upon the 1st May next ensuing the date hereof, and forever after, be United into One Kingdom by the Name of GREAT BRITAIN. was a sovereign...

 during the American Revolutionary War
American Revolutionary War
The American Revolutionary War , the American War of Independence, or simply the Revolutionary War, began as a war between the Kingdom of Great Britain and thirteen British colonies in North America, and ended in a global war between several European great powers.The war was the result of the...

 became the first settlement of Black Canadians. Other Black Loyalists were transported to settlements in several islands in the West Indies and some to London.
Quotations

Why is he tailing me all over town? Does he think I'm pretty or what?

I knew you gone sour, Ryan, but I didn't know you gone simple.

Her name wasn't really Sue Alabama... It was Sue something Greek and unpronounceable.

She primed him and I went in on the cleanup.

Sex was nearly all Sue Alabama ever needed, and she could use it the way some guys use a blackjack.

I can't figure him for a cannon. The only thing Pen Pal would ever use is the U.S. Mail... Extortion.

 
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