Welcome to the Story Section of the Black Loyalists Digital Collections site.

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Revolution

• Slavery
• Rebellion
• Escape from Bondage
• Lord Dunmore's Proclamation
• The Ethiopian Regiment
• The Philipsburg Proclamation
• The Black Pioneers

Exile

• The Peace Treaty
• Chaos in New York
• Certificates of Freedom
• Returned to Bondage

Arrival

• Landfall
• Huts and Holes
• King's Bounty
• Birchtown
• Black Communities

Prejudice

• The Annapolis Road
• Frolicking and Other Crimes
• Last in Line
• Slavery and Bondage
• A Fair Wage for A Fair Day's Work?

Faith

• The Anglicans
• The Huntingdonian Methodists
• The Wesleyan Methodists
• The Baptists
• Black Christianity and African Religion

Suffering

• Famine In Nova Scarcity
• 'A Wretched Place'
• Farming Stones
• Sharecropping and Peasantry
• Returned to Bondage
• Landless

Exodus

• Thomas Peters in England
• The Sierra Leone Company
• Clarkson's Mission
• Unlikely Opposition
• Voyage to Africa
• Freetown

William Booth's Black Woodcutter, one of only two images of Black Loyalists.

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