The first large group of settlers were the Black Loyalists, when some 3,500 arrived in what was then British North America. They came as refugees in the 1780s in the dying days of the American ...

President Trump and Elon Musk's push to eliminate diversity and inclusion practices feels like an effort to delegitimize ...

(Runaway slaves belonging to Loyalists were returned to their masters.) Dunmore officially issued his proclamation in November, 1775, and within a month 300 black men had joined his Ethiopian ...

Augustine, where the largest group of black refugees had sought asylum. In a conference with British Commander-in-Chief Guy Carleton regarding the evacuation of New York, Washington was surprised ...

History was made in the Town of Shelburne on Nov. 6 when Black Loyalist descendant Stanley Jacklin took the mayor’s oath of ...

African Nova Scotians/Indigenous Blacks are a distinct people who descend from free and enslaved Black Planters, Black Loyalists, Black Refugees, Maroons, and other Black people who inhabited the ...