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Dr. D. Elisabeth Glassco (deglassco@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 16-May-2025 01:52:35 JST Dr. D. Elisabeth Glassco

The Book of Negroes is more than a ledger—it is a story pressed into parchment, a testament to the brutal arithmetic of freedom. It begins in the final days of the American Revolution, a conflict that promised liberty but delivered it unevenly.
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Image: Rose Fortune came to Nova Scotia after the Revolutionary War, about June 1784. She earned a living as a "trucker," carrying baggage with a wheelbarrow.
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