- Paperback: 240 pages
- Publisher: Dundurn (Nov 23 2009)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1550028626
- ISBN-13: 978-1550028621
- Product Dimensions: 22.6 x 15 x 1.8 cm
- Shipping Weight: 386 g
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #230,511 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"Robart-Johnson has scores of fascinating stories to tell about the history of blacks in Yarmouth."
(Calgary Herald, The )"Africa’s Children is a leap forward in helping us to learn from our mistakes. One significant book does make a difference."
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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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This review is from: Africa's Children: A History of Blacks in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia (Paperback)
As a first time author and author of Africa's Children A History Of Blacks In Yarmouth,Nova Scotia, researching and writing a history book was both challenging and rewarding. It is a part of our history that has never been told and I chose to write Africa's Children to read as a story instead of the standard history book. I wanted my readers to be able to imagine in their mind's eye, as did I, exactly how it was during those periods in time; to picture themselves there and what they could/would have done to make things better for the oppressed. Imagine the injustices, the segregation, the heartache Blacks had to endure because of the colour of their skin. I wanted the reader to feel the emotions I felt when reading of these injustices.
Although regional in content, Africa's Children is indicative of the way Blacks were treated all over Canada. Several prominent men from the United States settled with their families in our small town and either brought their slaves with them or purchased them upon arrival; men such as James Lent, Andrew Lovitt, Samuel Andrews and Jesse Gray to name a few. Some were extremely cruel to their slaves and some were not. One family murdered one of their slaves, was tried and acquitted even though the evidence and the coroner's and doctor's testimony screamed "murder". American Black history is well known, important figures in that history known worldwide. Canadian Black history is equally important and Africa's Children is Canadian Black history, not only Nova Scotia's Black History. Africa's Children is a must read for historians and non-historians.
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This review is from: Africa's Children: A History of Blacks in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia (Paperback)
This book by first time author Sharon Robart-Johnson is a well researched and poignant story of the era. Depicting the life of blacks in Yarmouth, NS and area she captures the good and the bad. This is a must read for those who lived during this time and those who are of a later generation. It is history as recorded and Robart-Johnson tells it well.
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africa's children,
By Marguerite Phillips "M. Phillips" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Africa's Children: A History of Blacks in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia (Paperback)
In an easy to read style, the book records the lives, struggles & accomplishments of the Black population of Yarmouth N.S. and the largest and oldest Black seetlement; Greenville. It is an important book for all Canadians. It intersects with American Black history in the riveting and poignant opening story of an ex-American slave named Jude. I would therefore recommend it to them also.
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By Book Worm "Edith" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Africa's Children: A History of Blacks in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia (Paperback)
I have read the book and highly recommend it. It is informative and good reading. The author did a magnificent job. It presents in excellent details what happened to the descendants of Africa's children who were forcibly removed from their home country and relocated in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia. I give it a "thumbs up."
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