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Spokesmen and Settlers Stephen Blucke After a hazy military career, Blucke led the settlers at Birchtown, acting as a schoolteacher, magistrate, construction foreman and militia leader. Colonel Tye As the celebrated leader of the Black Brigade, Colonel Tye was a feared and effective guerilla in New Jersey. Thomas Peters One of the few black noncommissioned officers in the war, Peters went on to lead his people to a new land. Thomas Brownspriggs Leader of the Blacks at Little Tracadie - the most isolated settlement of blacks in the province. Ancestor of many modern Black Loyalists in Nova Scotia, Jupiter led a hard life in Birchtown. Mary Postell's story is an illustration of the precarious nature of the freedom for all the Black Loyalists. A policewoman and an entrepreneur, Rose Fortune made a success of her life from the humblest origins. |
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