'The Book of Negroes: African Americans in Exile after the American Revolution'Since publication of The Black Loyalist Directory in 1996, the primary component, The Book of Negroes, has become one of the most cited of American Revolutionary primary sources. This new edition salutes The Book of Negroes by using the original title of this famous accounting of Black freedom. On the surface, The Book of Negroes is a laconic, ledger style enumeration of 3,000 self emancipated and free Blacks who departed as part of the British