Copyright © 2011 Gloria Ann Wesley

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Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

Wesley, Gloria

Chasing freedom / Gloria Ann Wesley.

ISBN 978-1-55266-423-0

1. Black loyalists--Nova Scotia--Birchtown--Fiction.

2. Women, Black--Nova Scotia--Birchtown--Fiction.

3. Slavery--South Carolina--Fiction. I. Title.

PS8595.E6295C53 2011 C813’.54 C2010-907222-7