The town was first settled by Black British Loyalists after the American Revolution, who left New York harbors in 1783 seeking freedom. Just as I did as a toddler, crossing the vast Atlantic Ocean ...

In the wake of Britain’s defeat in 1783, a stream of Loyalists arrived in Shelburne County on Nova Scotia’s South Shore. Many, mostly the white Loyalists, settled in Shelburne, while the ...

Black Loyalists, Black Refugees, Maroons, and other Black people who inhabited the original 52 land-based Black communities in that part of Mi'kma'ki known as Nova Scotia. Today, there are ...

In 1810-1811 Cuffe sailed to Sierra Leone, a British colony that had been created as a haven for poor blacks from London and black Loyalists who despaired of life as free people in Nova Scotia.

They were bound for Sierra Leone, a British colony that had been created as a haven for poor blacks from London and black Loyalists who despaired of life as free people in Nova Scotia. During this ...