The Book of Negroes

What does Jason say about the relationship between freed blacks and whites in Nova Scotia?

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Acccording to the text, the Black Loyalists encountered racism from free whites.

After all, The Book of Negroes details the horrors of the Middle Passage, plantation work, the racism encountered by the Black Loyalists in 15 Nova Scotia, and the struggles to establish a colony in Sierra Leone, all of which seem out of step with National Geographic’s mandate “of showing people at their best”; as a result, “very few National Geographic photographs show their subjects engaged in, being victimized by, or in the obvious aftermath of violent encounters” (Lutz and Collins 98), scenarios that would encompass a good deal of The Book of Negroes’ narrative.

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