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  • Author(s): Hill, Lawrence
  • Source:
    Beaver. Feb/Mar2007, Vol. 87 Issue 1, p16-23. 8p. 3 Color Photographs, 2 Black and White Photographs.
  • Additional Information
    • Subject Terms:
      BOOK of Negroes, The (Book); HILL, Lawrence, 1957-; BLACK people; HISTORIANS; GENEALOGISTS
    • Subject Terms:
      CANADA
    • Abstract:
      The article focuses on "The Book of Negroes," by Lawrence Hill. The book offers information about the lives of black people living more than two centuries ago. It enables historians and genealogists to trace and correlate people backward and forward in other documents, such as census and tax records. It provides an unsettling portrait of the origins of the Black Loyalists in Canada. INSETS: Inside the Book of Negroes;The (Legislative) End of the Trade in Slaves.