The Nova Scotian Settlers, or Sierra Leone Settlers (also known as the Nova Scotians or more commonly as the Settlers), were Black Canadians of African-American...
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Black Nova Scotians (also known as African Nova Scotians and Afro-Nova Scotians) are Black Canadians whose ancestors primarily date back to the Colonial...
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Black Loyalist (category Ethnic groups in Nova Scotia)
another 1,192 Black Loyalists from Nova Scotia chose to emigrate to Sierra Leone, becoming known as the Nova Scotian Settlers in the new British colony of Sierra...
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of Sierra Leone, and was the first home of the Nova Scotian Settlers. The Nova Scotian Settlers were African Americans, many of them ex-slaves, who had...
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slavery and fought for the British during the war. The majority of Nova Scotian settlers who later immigrated to the new colony of Sierra Leone in 1792 were...
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Leone and founded Freetown on 11 March 1792. The descendants of the Nova Scotian settlers form part of the Sierra Leone Creole ethnicity today. On 24 May...
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Colony that was established on 11 March 1792 by the Nova Scotian Settlers. Although the Nova Scotians established Freetown in 1792, the Jamaican Maroons...
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Sierra Leone Company (category Nova Scotian Settler (Sierra Leone))
resettlement of Black Loyalists who had initially been settled in Nova Scotia (the Nova Scotian Settlers) after the American Revolutionary War. The company came...
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to a variety of unfree labor apprenticeships at the hands of the Nova Scotian Settlers and Jamaican Maroons in Sierra Leone. During the 19th century, it...
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turning Nova Scotian Acadians over to the British. Following the Acadians' repeated refusal to fight the French, the British Governor and Nova Scotia council...
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