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  2. Black Nova Scotians - Wikipedia

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    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.

  3. Nova Scotian Settlers - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  4. African Americans in Ohio - Wikipedia

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    Ohio was a destination for escaped African Americans slaves before the Civil War. In the early 1870s, the Society of Friends members actively helped former black slaves in their search of freedom. The state was important in the operation of the Underground Railroad .

  5. Upper Hammonds Plains, Nova Scotia - Wikipedia

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    The community is named after the Governor of Nova Scotia Sir Andrew Hamond, 1st Baronet. Its border is defined by the Government of Nova Scotia and it is adjacent to Hammonds Plains in the east and south, Upper Tantallon in the south, Head of St. Margarets Bay and Mount Uniacke in the west, and Mount Uniacke and Upper Sackville in the north. [2]

  6. List of Black Nova Scotians - Wikipedia

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    Corrine Sparks, first African Nova Scotian to be appointed to the judiciary and first African Canadian woman to serve on the bench. Edith Hester McDonald-Brown, considered first documented Black female painter in Canadian art history. John Paris Jr., the first Black person to coach a pro hockey team.

  7. Category:People of Black Nova Scotian descent - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "People of Black Nova Scotian descent" ... Nova Scotian Settlers This page was last edited on 30 June 2024, at 04:34 (UTC). Text ...

  8. Thomas Peters (revolutionary) - Wikipedia

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    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.

  9. Black refugee (War of 1812) - Wikipedia

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    About 2000 settled in Nova Scotia and about 400 settled in New Brunswick. [8] Together they were the largest single source of African-American immigrants, whose descendants formed the core of African Canadians. Black refugees in Nova Scotia were first housed in the former prisoner-of-war camp on Melville Island. After the War of 1812, it was ...