As the Black Loyalists were settled in Nova Scotia, a number of seperate
communities were established to settle them in. Generally located on less
desirable land near a white settlement, there seems to have been a conscious
policy of segregation of blacks into communities that would be out of
sight but still useful as pool of cheap labour.
Birchtown
Birchtown was the largest of the Black Loyalists communities and its
peak population might have had half of Nova Scotia's Black Loyalists.
Loch Lomond
Just north of Saint John, New Brunswick (then called Parrtown), Loch
lomond was more or less the only place where balcks were allowed to settle
in the area.
Preston
Preston has been used as as place to settle poor blacks and to some degree
other poor people for hundreds of years. Located just to the west of Dartmouth,
Preston has been repeatedly resettled with blacks.
Brindley Town
Located near Digby, Brindley Town has a sustasined history of balck settlement
since the days of the Black Loyalists.
Little Tracadie
The only major Black Loyalist community that was not envisioned as a
satellite community for the convenience of a larger white town, Little
Tracadie was the only Black community that was not substantially depopulated
by the Sierra Leone exodus. Most of the blacks in the area today are direct
Black Loyalists descendents.
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