Book of Negroes
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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 wh
Fraunces Tavern, NYC – where Birch assembled the Book of Negroes.
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
Book of Negroes
…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…
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)