Black Loyalist Timeline
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Updated: 4 months ago
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2021: February 2021, A Royal Canadian mint sent out a commemorative coin
In honouring Black loyalists.1775: Lord Dunmore (The Governor of Virginia) offered freedom to
any slave who would prove loyal to the British Crown and fight for Britain.By 1779, 100,000 black slaves had joined the British due to British encouragement to take refuge behind British Lines.By 1782, the British knew that they had lost the war, so the British started to prepare to leave. They also left a number of black slaves, and they were recaptured into slavery. Others went to Florida, the West Indies, and British North America (Canada), and settled. Most went to Nova Scotia and New Brunswick.Sierra Leone Company comes to Nova Scotia and New Brunswick after many black loyalists find retreat in the provinces. Due to the Sierra Leone Company’s presence, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick saw a sizable exodus of Black Loyalists.1812: Black Loyalists participated in the war of 1812 and joined a militia. The rather low class Black Loyalists were slowly noticing that slavery was decreasing.The Treaty of Paris was signed in 1783, making the United States an independent nation. A lot of Black Loyalists were re-enslaved and many relocated To Nova Scotia, where they also faced inequality there.2017: The Nova Scotia Government said that it would cost $2.7 million and two years in order to help African Nova Scotians in five historically black communities to obtain land that has been in their families for generations.2023: Thomas Peters, a significant Black Loyalist, was given an official title of “Person of National Historical Significance”.
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