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category: Children's Fiction
published: Sep 2013
ISBN:9781552666029
publisher: Fernwood Publishing
imprint: Roseway Publishing

If This Is Freedom

by Gloria Ann Wesley

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If This Is Freedom continues the story of struggle for Loyalist settlers in Nova Scotia after the American Revolutionary War. In the black settlement of Birchtown, times are especially hard for the former slaves. They face the difficulties of a hardscrabble existence and continued discrimination from their white counterparts.

Like many desperate Birchtowners, Sarah Redmond has signed an indenture agreement, a work contract meant to protect her rights and ensure a living wage. Sarah’s employers, the Blyes, do not honour the agreement, and Sarah and her family are all but shattered when Sarah takes a wrong step – one she will come to regret as it sets off a chain of unusual events that put her under further pressure. With her faith in the settlement running dry and the Birchtowners abandoning the settlement, Sarah is perplexed and soon faces the taxing option of whether to hold on to the only real life she has ever known or let go. At once a stand-alone story and a companion to Gloria Ann Wesley’s previous novel, Chasing Freedom, this story about moral courage and the enduring strength of dreams shares history with us in a way that is both honest and emotional.

 

About the Author

Gloria Ann Wesley

GLORIA ANN WESLEY is the author of three books of poetry and two historical novels: If This Is Freedom and Chasing Freedom, which was shortlisted for the 2012 Ann Connor Brimer Award for Young Adult Fiction. Gloria is also the author of Africville in the Righting Canada's Wrongs series (2019). She lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Editorial Review

 

“This tale brims with love, racial conflict, mystery, deception and ultimately forgiveness: it’s a story for our times. Wesley’s characters have compelling things to say to us. Set in the 1780’s, a time when the transatlantic slave trade was rife, Sarah and Thomas invite us into their tumultuous world. As Thomas says ‘You can’t wait on life to fulfill your dreams. You have to make them happen.’”

 

— Sylvia D. Hamilton, Filmmaker and Writer, Producer/Director of The Little Black School House
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