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Africa's Children: A History of Blacks in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia
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by Sharon Robart-Johnson

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"Africa's Children is a testament to one's heritage, a belief in one's ancestors, and a record of truth ... no told!" - Dr. Henry V. Bishop, chief curator, Black Cultural Centre, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia

Chronicling the history of Black families of the Yarmouth area of Nova Scotia, Africa's Children is a mirror image of the hopes and despairs and the achievements and 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 and 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 and cemetery records, church and school histories, libraries, museums, oral histories, newspapers, wills The Black Loyalist Directory, and many others, this is a history that has been overlooked for far too long.

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  • Title Africa's Children: A History of Blacks in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia
  • Author Sharon Robart-Johnson
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 240
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Dundurn Press, Toronto
  • Publication date 2009
  • Features Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9781550028621 / 1550028626
  • Weight 0.8 lbs (0.36 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 6 x 0.55 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 1.40 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Canadian
    • Ethnic Orientation: African
    • Geographic Orientation: Nova Scotia
  • Category History - General History
  • Library of Congress subjects Blacks - Nova Scotia - Yarmouth (County) -, Yarmouth (N.S.: County) - History
  • Dewey Decimal Code 971

About the author

Sharon Robart-Johnson has a rich cultural background comprised of both African and European ancestry. Born in the South End of Yarmouth, she is a thirteenth-generation Nova Scotian and part of her heritage dates back to the early slaves who were brought to the Digby County area in the late 1700s and to the Black Loyalists who arrived in Shelburne in 1783. Her passion for reseraching Black history began in 1993. Sharon, her husband, and son live in the (at one time) all-Black community of Greenville, Yarmouth County.

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