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 ...

These black loyalists were rewarded with land in Nova Scotia, but the hostility of white loyalists and the harsh climate made them sign up for Sierra Leone too. They were followed by Maroons ...

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 ...