To Stand and Fight Together

Autorentext

Steve Pitt's first children's book, Rain Tonight: A Tale of Hurricane Hazel,was nominated for the Silver Birch, Red Cedar, and Rocky Mountain awards. He has been published in many magazines and newspapers, including Toronto Life, Canadian Family, the Globe and Mail, and the Toronto Star. Currently he lives in Toronto.

Klappentext

In 1812, a 67-year-old black United Empire Loyalist named Richard Pierpoint helped raise "a corps of Coloured Men to stand and fight together" against the Americans who were threatening to invade the tiny British colony of Upper Canada. Pierpoin

Inhalt
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.