ABSTRACT
This chapter argues that in the US Crispus Attucks is the black name, the black personality, in author's common memory of eighteenth century, revolutionary, America. It argues that over the course of the Revolutionary War and in its aftermath numbers of black Americans slavers-invented themselves as loyal British subjects, Loyalists. The chapter uses the term Africadian', a word minted from Africa' and Acadia', to denote the black populations of the Maritimes and especially of Nova Scotia. John Adams's speech indicates the unsavory nature of Attucks's associates but Paul Gilroy's point is that the list reveals itself to be made up of marginal travelers on the ocean, a cast with international implications, a shout about multiplicity and the fluidity of association itself. Race and place on a small map, one human-sized, one that does not deny the poles, contradictions, excesses, other geographies, and that insists on black particularity.
