Black Loyalist
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Black Loyalists were people of Black African descent who sided with the Loyalists during the American Revolutionary War, in favour of the British. In particular, the term referred to the men enslaved
Full text of Dunmore's Proclamation
Plaque commemorating the Royal Ethiopian Regiment
1788 illustration of a Black woodcutter in Shelburne, Nova Scotia
Lawrence Hartshorne, d. 1822, a Quaker who was the chief assistant of John Clarkson in helping the Black Nova Scotian Settlers immigrate to Sierra Leone (1792), Old Burying Ground (Halifax, Nova Scotia)
Royal Ethiopian Regiment
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The Royal Ethiopian Regiment, also known as Lord Dunmore's Ethiopian Regiment, was a British military unit formed of "indentured servants, negros or others" organized after the April 1775 outbreak of
Black Loyalist
…people. Lord Dunmore's proclamation and others led to the formation of several Black regiments in the British army. The most notable were Dunmore's Royal Ethiopian Regiment and Clinton's Black Company of Pioneers. Other regiments included the Jersey Shore Volunteers, the Jamaica Rangers, the Mosquito Shore Volunteers, and…
Patrick Henry Rothermel