Ruma Chopra: 2 books

Book cover of Almost Home

Almost Home

Maroons between Slavery and Freedom in Jamaica, Nova Scotia, and Sierra Leone

by Ruma Chopra
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2018

The unique story of a small community of escaped slaves who revolted against the British government yet still managed to maneuver and survive against all odds After being exiled from their native Jamaica in 1795, the Trelawney Town Maroons endured in Nova Scotia and then in Sierra Leone. In...
Book cover of Choosing Sides

Choosing Sides

Loyalists in Revolutionary America

by Ruma Chopra
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2013

Though scores of texts, films and stories have been told about the American Revolution from the perspectives of our Founding Fathers and their followers, comparatively little is known about those colonists who resisted the revolutionary movement, and tried desperately to preserve their nation’s...
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