Two Sams

Two Sams, based on historical documents and oral history, tells the journey of an African-American family from slavery in Rhode Island and Virginia to life as Black Loyalists in colonial Nova Scotia.

About the author

Sharon Robart-Johnson has a rich cultural background comprised of both African and European ancestry. Her European roots reach beyond the Expulsion of the Acadians in 1755, to the arrival of the Black Loyalists in Shelburne in 1783, and to a slave who was brought to Digby County, Nova Scotia in 1798. Born in the South End of Yarmouth, she is a thirteenth-generation Nova Scotian. Her passion for researching Black history began in 1993 and has continued. In 2009 her first book, Africa's Children: A History of Blacks in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, was published; and in 2022 she published Jude and Diana, an historical novel which won Robbie Robertson Dartmouth Book Award for fiction. Sharon is a past member at large of the Board of Directors of the Yarmouth County Historical Society, which owns and operates the Yarmouth County Museum and Archives, and she has five years of archival experience.

Product details

• Authors: Sharon Robart-Johnson
• Publisher: Moose House Publications
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.03.2024
• EAN: 9781998149292
• ISBN: 978-1-998149-29-2
• No. of pages: 254
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 14 mm
• Weight: 374 g
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories