Labour, Enslavement, and Indigenous Space: Liverpool, Nova Scotia in the Atlantic World, 1759-1812

• Main Author: Laurie, Amber
• Other Authors: Department of History, Master of Arts, n/a, Colin Mitchell, Lisa Binkley, John G. Reid, Jerry Bannister, Not Applicable, No
• Language: English
• Published: 2022
• Subjects: Enslavement; Abolition; Nova Scotia; Colonialism; Black Loyalists; Labour; Mi'kma'ki; Simeon Perkins; African Nova Scotians; Indigenous; Atlantic World; Planters; The Planter; Mi’kmaw
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10222/81915

This thesis reconceptualizes the Planter and Loyalist periods around Liverpool, Nova Scotia, from 1759 to 1812. Rather than privileging the American Revolutionary War, it emphasises Indigenous space and Black people to study this shared place. Drawing on the diaries of Simeon Perkins and Mi’kmaw con...