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The gravestone of Lawrence Hartshorne, a Quaker who was the chief assistant of John Clarkson. [1]The Nova Scotian Settlers, or Sierra Leone Settlers (also known as the Nova Scotians or more commonly as the Settlers), were African Americans and African Nova Scotians or Black Canadians of African-American descent who founded the settlement of Freetown, Sierra Leone and the Colony of Sierra Leone ...
Among the descendants of the Black Loyalists are noted figures such as Rose Fortune, a Black woman living in Nova Scotia who became a police officer and a businesswoman. [34] Measha Brueggergosman (née Gosman), the Canadian opera and concert singer, is a New Brunswick native and descendant of a Black Loyalist through her father.
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.
While most Black people who arrived in Nova Scotia during the American Revolution were free, others were not. [74] Enslaved Black peoples also arrived in Nova Scotia as the property of White American Loyalists. [75] In 1772, prior to the American Revolution, Britain outlawed the slave trade in the British Isles followed by the Knight v.
The Book of Negroes is a document created by Brigadier General Samuel Birch, under the direction of Sir Guy Carleton, that records names and descriptions of 3,000 Black Loyalists, enslaved Africans who escaped to the British lines during the American Revolution and were evacuated to points in Nova Scotia as free people of colour.
A Black Loyalist, Jane traveled to Nova Scotia on the L'Abondance. She was described as being worn out, about 70 years of age, and formerly the property of Thomas Newton of Norfolk. She traveled with her five-year-old grandchild. [11] She travelled with Hannah Jackson, her daughter-in-law, and Robert and Peter Jackson, her grandchildren.
Wilkinson joined some 3,000 other Black Loyalists in on L'Abondance to Halifax in Nova Scotia; [6] [9] he is listed with them in the Book of Negroes. [1] The largest Black Loyalist settlement in Nova Scotia was established in Birchtown, but the refugees found the climate and conditions harsh, and the Crown was slow to grant them land. [6]
Upper Big Tracadie is a small community in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, located in Antigonish County.It is a rural, predominantly African Canadian community. Led by Thomas Brownspriggs, Black Nova Scotians who had settled at Chedabucto Bay behind the present-day village of Guysborough migrated to Tracadie (1787). [1]