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| Title: | To Stand & Fight Together
: Richard Pierpoint & the Coloured Corps of Upper Canada |
| Author: | Steve Pitt |
| ISBN: | 155002731X : 9781550027310 |
| Illustrations: | b/w photos |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Size: | 205x205mm |
| Pages: | 144 |
| Weight: | .284 Kg. |
| Published: | Dundurn Press - February 2008 |
| List Price: | 10.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: | In Print |
| Subjects: | Language learning: audio-visual & multimedia |
For ages 8-13. In 1812 a 67 year old black United Empire loyalist helped raise a corps of coloured men to stand against an American invasion in Upper Canada. This fighting unit saw service on many fronts and went on to police clashes between Irish immigrants during the construction of the Wellnad Canal. The book also details the rise and fall of slavery and explains how Scottish pineapples are connected to the American Declaration of Independence.
Fort James: West Africa, 1760; Auction, Slavery, Revolution, and Freedom; Free Black Man in a Slave Colony; Only a Matter of Marching ...; Building Fort Mississauga; Peace, Promises, and Pioneering; The Patriot Rebellions of 1837-38; Roads, Rivers, and Riots; A Victoria Cross and Two World Wars; Afterword; Timeline; Selected Reading and Websites.
