{"product_id":"the-book-of-negroes-9780823298808","title":"The Book of Negroes","description":"Since publication of \u003ci\u003eThe Black Loyalist Directory\u003c\/i\u003e in 1996, the primary component,\u003ci\u003e The Book of \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eNegroes\u003c\/i\u003e, has become one of the most-cited of American Revolutionary primary sources. This new edition salutes \u003ci\u003eThe Book of Negroes \u003c\/i\u003eby using the original title of this famous accounting of Black freedom. On the surface, \u003ci\u003eThe Book of Negroes\u003c\/i\u003e 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,\u003ci\u003e The Book of Negroes\u003c\/i\u003e is, as Alan Gilbert has observed, a “roll of honor.”","brand":"Graham Russell Gao Hodges","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48282687340795,"sku":"9780823298808","price":39.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/CoreSourceHub_f1ab783e-1518-401a-9d6a-b89173304ec8.jpg?v=1778354301","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/the-book-of-negroes-9780823298808","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}