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2. Black Loyalist - Wikipedia

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   British abolitionists ultimately founded Freetown in what became Sierra Leone on the coast of West Africa as a place to resettle Black Loyalists from London and Canada and Jamaican Maroons. Nearly 2,000 Black Loyalists left Nova Scotia to help found the new African colony. Their descendants are the Sierra Leone Creole people. [14] [15] [16] [17]

3. Stephen Blucke - Wikipedia

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   Stephen Blucke or Stephen Bluck (born c. 1752 –after 1796) was a Black Loyalist in the American Revolutionary War and one the commanding officers of the British Loyalist provincial unit, the Black Company of Pioneers. [1] He was one of 3,000 people who left New York for Nova Scotia on British ships.

4. Nova Scotian Settlers - Wikipedia

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   The gravestone of Lawrence Hartshorne, a Quaker who was the chief assistant of John Clarkson. [1] [2]The Nova Scotian Settlers, or Sierra Leone Settlers (also known as the Nova Scotians or more commonly as the Settlers), were African Americans and Black Canadians of African-American descent who founded the settlement of Freetown, Sierra Leone and the Colony of Sierra Leone, on March 11, 1792.

5. James W. St. G. Walker - Wikipedia

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   James W. St.G. Walker FRSC CM (born August 5, 1940) is a Canadian professor of history at the University of Waterloo, and a historian of human rights and racism.. Walker received his PhD from Dalhousie University in 1973. [1]

6. African Americans in Canada - Wikipedia

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   The Underground Railroad was a secret network that helped African Americans escape from slavery in the South to free states in the north and to Canada. [3] Harriet Tubman helped enslaved Black people escape to Canada. [4] Around some 1,500 African Americans migrated to the Plains region of Canada in the years between 1905 and 1912.

7. Birchtown, Nova Scotia - Wikipedia

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   Birchtown is a community and National Historic Site in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, located near Shelburne in the Municipal District of Shelburne County. [2] Founded in 1783, the village was the largest settlement of Black Loyalists and the largest free settlement of ethnic Africans in North America in the eighteenth century.