Chasing Freedom

A story of the struggle of Black Loyalists and their arrival in Nova Scotia.Shortlisted for The Ann Connor Brimer Award for Children's Literature."...This novel of a revolutionary era, of Yanks and Africans "chasing freedom," is arresting, with startling events, intriguing characters, and vivid language. ..." — George Elliott ClarkeThe American Revolutionary War is being waged, and the fate of slaves in the colonies is on the line. Sarah Redmond, a slave on a South Carolina plantation, watches with a heavy heart as her father steals away in the dead of the night to join the British army, enticed by promises of freedom, land and provisions for his whole family. But before her father can return, the war draws to a close and the Loyalist slaves are all freed — including Sarah and her grandmother, Lydia. Uncertain of their future, Sarah and Lydia join the thousands who are rounded up and sent to New York to prepare for their journey to a new home somewhere in...