The great majority were neutral or Loyalist. For black people, what mattered most was freedom. As the Revolutionary War spread through every region, those in bondage sided with whichever army ...
And he’s brought a cadre of familiar, and not so familiar, faces with him. The Trump 2.0 brain trust isn’t wholly dissimilar ...
About one-fifth of the black American population at the time took advantage of the offer, writes Historia Canada. In the wake of Britain’s defeat in 1783, a stream of Loyalists arrived in ...
George, along with Boston King, was one of about 1,500 black Loyalists who escaped to Nova Scotia, joining 15,000 white Loyalists who had just arrived. The blacks thought they would have equal ...
After being freed by the British for fighting in the War of Independence in 1776, Black Loyalists built pit houses in order to survive harsh winter conditions in Birchtown, N.S. In 2022 ...
African Nova Scotians/Indigenous Blacks are a distinct people who descend from free and enslaved Black Planters, Black Loyalists, Black Refugees, Maroons, and other Black people who inhabited the ...
The great majority were neutral or Loyalist. For black people, what mattered most was freedom. As the Revolutionary War spread through every region, those in bondage sided with whichever army ...