Finding Fortune
Documenting and Imagining the Life of Rose Fortune
- Publisher
- SSP Publications
- Initial publish date
- May 2019
- Category
- Social History, Revolutionary Period (1775-1800), Pre-Confederation (to 1867), Slavery
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781989347041
- Publish Date
- May 2019
- List Price
- $47.85
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Description
A daughter of runaway slaves, a Black Loyalist, the first Black police officer, a business woman and a friend of T.C. Haliburton, Rose Fortune's amazing story is told for the first time.
About the author
Brenda Thompson has been an anti-poverty activist and writer for more than 30 years. She holds a Masters degree in Sociology from Acadia University and, as a former ‘welfare mother’ and lifetime low wage earner, she has lived with poverty issues firsthand. Living in the Annapolis Royal area of Nova Scotia, she has discovered a passion for local history.