These Black Loyalists chose to escape the bondage that awaited them in the United States. To do so, they submitted to being packed on top of each other in the lower quarters of ships, cramped among ...

After being freed by the British for fighting in the War of Independence in 1776, Black Loyalists built pit houses in order to survive harsh winter conditions in Birchtown, N.S. In 2022, The Weather ...

Black Loyalists seek freedom at Gwynn’s Island amid war, disease, and their fight for hope. In 1776, hundreds of formerly enslaved men joined Lord Dunmore’s British forces on Gwynn’s Island, seeking ...

Whitehead painstakingly traces the history of Nova Scotia's people of African descent, from the time they were captured in Africa by slave traders, transported and sold as slaves to wealthy landowners ...

The Black pioneers and others: the military role of Black loyalists in the American war for independence / Todd W. Braisted -- Hidden from history: Black loyalists at Country Harbour, Nova Scotia / ...

The 400-year history of African culture in this maritime Canadian province is expansive, but it’s a story that’s been tucked into the shadows of Canadian history. Now, grass-root initiatives are ...

While the Patriots were ultimately victorious in the American Revolution, choosing sides and deciding whether to fight in the war was far from an easy choice for American colonists. The great majority ...

Originally published in hardcover 2012. "We commonly think of the American Revolution as simply the war for independence from British colonial rule. But, of course, that independence actually applied ...

Loyalists in Co Tyrone have come under fire after they erected posters that appeared to dismiss the Black Lives Matter movement, with Northern Irish politicians claiming that they are racist and ...