| Description |
1 online resource (369 pages) |
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Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Foreword; Author's Note; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter 1: Jude; Chapter 2: Early Treatment of Blacks; Chapter 3: Racism Beyond the Grave; Chapter 4: Community of Greenville: Earliest Black Settlement in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia; Chapter 5: Black Churches in Yarmouth; Chapter 6: Greenville School: Yarmouth County's Only All-Black School; Chapter 7: Military: Yarmouth's Men in the First World War; Chapter 8: The Role of Sports; Chapter 9: Murders, Mysterious Disappearances, and Deaths of the Twentieth Century |
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Chapter 10: Black Reminiscences: Articles From Yarmouth's PastChapter 11: Other Stories of Historical Interest; Chapter 12: Bridging the Gap: Success Stories of Yarmouth's Blacks; Epilogue; Appendix A: List of Pastors at the Disney Chapel, 1877 to 1940; Appendix B: Probationers Achieving Full Membership in the Disney Chapel AME Church, 1904-05; Notes; Bibliography; Index; About the Author |
| Summary |
This extensively researched history traces the lives of black families of the Yarmouth area of Nova Scotia who, still enslaved at the time, arrived with the influx of black loyalists and landed in Shelburne in 1783 |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Black people -- Nova Scotia -- Yarmouth (County) -- History
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
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HISTORY -- General.
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Black people
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Yarmouth (N.S. : County) -- History
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Yarmouth (N.S. : County) -- Biography
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Yarmouth (N.S. : County) -- Genealogy
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| Subject |
Nova Scotia -- Yarmouth (County)
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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Genealogy
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History
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781770705289 |
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1770705287 |
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