birchtown settlement black history

By naffa
  • black loyalists

    american revolutionary war thousands of free and enslaved black people fought for the british
  • evacuations of black loyalists

    a person named after brigadier general samul brich who helped to lead the evacuation of black loyalists in new york
  • digby shelburne

    81 ships departed to new York headed to nova Scotia some black people were indentured servants
  • sheblburne race riots

    tensions were at a all-time high between white residents of shelburne and black residents of birchtown with few possessions and no land man black people where forced to work for white people
  • david george's home

    a group of white loyalists destroyed baptist minister david george's home in shelburne
  • black people promised land

    more then 3,000 former enslaved black people who were free settled in nova Scotia were hoping for the land that they where promised
  • black loyalists are getting frustrated

    around 1.200 black loyalists frustrated with thier situation in town like birchtown
  • sierra leone

    the maroons from jamaica eventually joined the loyalists in sierra leone freetown