black history month: more african canadians.

[ayodele]

As Revolution began in the thirteen American colonies in the late 1770s, the British were badly outnumbered. When in desperation they promised freedom to any slave of a rebel who fought the Americans on their behalf, the response was greater than they could have imagined; as many as 30 000 slaves escaped to British lines. Working as soldiers,

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[recumbentgoat]

These are fantastic links which I'll post to the info page---

I'd briefly heard about the black loyalists at a Museum of Afro-American History lecture. A family had given the museum their artifacts and had come to America from Nova Scotia--