JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF THE ATLANTIC REGION AUTUMN 2002

A C A D I E N S I S

REVUE D’HISTOIRE DE LA RÉGION ATLANTIQUE AUTOMNE 2002

Editor/Directeur

RUSTY BITTERMANN

Secretary/Secrétaire

BECKEY DANIEL

Assistant Editor

French Language Editor

LORRAINE COOPS

JACQUES PAUL COUTURIER

Editorial Board/Comité de rédaction

T.W. ACHESON

MARGARET McCALLUM

SHEILA ANDREW

ELIZABETH McGAHAN

PATRICIA BELIER

LIANNE McTAVISH

D.G. BELL

GREG MARQUIS

MARION BEYEA

MARC MILNER

GAIL CAMPBELL

WILLIAM PARENTEAU

JACQUES PAUL COUTURIER

STEPHEN PATTERSON

GREGG FINLEY

SCOTT SEE

E.R. FORBES

WILLIAM SPRAY

DAVID FRANK

ERIC L. SWANICK

BURTON GLENDENNING

PETER TONER

PETER C. KENT

D.M. YOUNG

Editorial Advisory Board/Comité consultatif

P.A. BUCKNER

COLIN D. HOWELL

J. MURRAY BECK

GEORGE MacBEATH

FRANCIS W.P. BOLGER

COLIN B. MacKAY

SEAN CADIGAN

IAN McKAY

J.M.S. CARELESS

R.A. MacLEAN

THOMAS J. CONDON

D.A. MUISE

MARGARET CONRAD

ROSEMARY OMMER

JEAN DAIGLE

JOHN G. REID

GWENDOLYN DAVIES

ERIC SAGER

JUDITH FINGARD

PETER B. WAITE

NAOMI GRIFFITHS

GRAEME WYNN

JAMES HILLER

Acadiensis: Journal of the History of the Atlantic Region is published twice a year, in the autumn and in the spring, by the Department of History of the University of New Brunswick. The Editorial Board welcomes the submission of manuscripts, in either English or French. All correspondence should be sent to: Acadiensis Campus House University of New Brunswick Fredericton, N.B.

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We acknowledge the financial support of the Government of Canada, through the Publications Assistance Program (PAP), toward our mailing costs. Articles in Acadiensis are indexed in/Les articles sont répertoirés dans: Canadian Periodical Index, America: History and Life, Historical Abstracts, Arts and Humanities Citation Index, Current Contents/Arts and Humanities, IBZ (International Bibliography of Periodical Literature), ERIC (Educational Resource Information Center), International Current Awareness Services, Canadian Index and Canadian Business and Current Affairs.

ACADIENSIS

VOL. XXXII, NO. 1 AUTUMN/AUTOMNE 2002

KENNETH DONOVAN

“After Midnight We Danced Until Daylight”: Music, Song and Dance in Cape Breton,

1713-1758

3

HARVEY AMANI WHITFIELD

“We Can Do as We Like Here”: An Analysis of Self Assertion and Agency Among Black Refugees in Halifax, Nova Scotia, 1813-1821

29

CAMERON PULSIFER

“Something More Durable . . .”: The British Military’s Building of Wellington Barracks and Brick Construction in 19th-Century Halifax

50

DANIEL C. GOODWIN

The Search for a Professional Ministry: Samuel Elder and 19th-Century Maritime Calvinistic Baptists

69

FORUM

JERRY BANNISTER

Whigs and Nationalists: The Legacy of Judge Prowse’s History of Newfoundland 84

REVIEW ESSAYS/NOTES CRITIQUES

PHILLIP A. BUCKNER Was there a “British” Empire?

The Oxford History of the British Empire from a Canadian Perspective .............. 110

RUSSELL JOHNSTON Value Added: Recent Books in the History of Communications and Culture .............................. 129

PETER TWOHIG

Aboriginal Health in Canada .................................................................................. 140

BIBLIOGRAPHY/BIBLIOGRAPHIE

Recent Publications Relating to the History of the Atlantic Region ..................... 149

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