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The Black Pioneers were an African American military unit, established, in May 1776, out of Lord Dunmore's disbanded Loyalist unit, the Royal Ethiopian Regiment. The Pioneers retained the Ethiopian regimental motto, which was embroidered on their uniforms: "Liberty to Slaves."
Thomas Peters, born Thomas Potters (1738 – 25 June 1792), [1] was a veteran of the Black Pioneers, fighting for the British in the American Revolutionary War. A Black Loyalist, he was resettled in Nova Scotia, where he became a politician and one of the "Founding Fathers" of the nation of Sierra Leone in West Africa.
Beech Settlement became one of Indiana's largest early black pioneer communities by the mid-1830s, when the total black population of Ripley Township reached nearly 400 people. The majority of Beech Settlement's early pioneers, whose main occupation was farming, were free people of color who had arrived by 1835 from eastern North Carolina and ...
John Garrison, Charles Austin, Nathaniel Sargent and Jane Ruley made impacts on the community prior to 1900.
Descendants of free Black pioneers who settled Lick Creek Settlement hike the Hoosier National Forest Lick Creek Trail after helping clean gravestones at the Roberts & Thomas Cemetery, which is ...
A quilt featuring Black pioneers of the past century from a county in western North Carolina is on display at The post Quilt tells the story of Black pioneers in western North Carolina appeared ...
According to Professors Jeffrey K. Tulis and Nicole Mellow: [11]. The Founding, Reconstruction (often called “the second founding”), and the New Deal are typically heralded as the most significant turning points in the country’s history, with many observers seeing each of these as political triumphs through which the United States has come to more closely realize its liberal ideals of ...
Miami historian and preservationist Enid Pinkney died Thursday at age 92, her nephew Gary Allen confirmed. Pinkney’s passion for preserving the history of Miami’s Black pioneers, landmarks and ...