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Black Loyalists were people of African descent who sided with Loyalists during the American Revolutionary War. [1] In particular, the term referred to men enslaved by Patriots who served on the Loyalist side because of the Crown 's guarantee of freedom.
The Book of Negroes: African Americans in Exile After the American Revolution (Fordham University Press, 2021). Jackson, Luther P. "Virginia Negro Soldiers and Seamen in the American Revolution." Journal of Negro History 27.3 (1942): 247–287 online. Kaplan, Sidney and Emma Nogrady Kaplan. The Black Presence in the Era of the American ...
The story of the black Loyalists is outlined, with references, later in this article. The longer the Revolutionary War went on, the more fluid and dynamic the "Patriot" and "Loyalist" categories became; and the larger the population became that did not fit neatly into either camp. [3]
A Black Loyalist wood cutter in Shelburne, Nova Scotia, 1788. The government settled numerous Black Loyalists in Nova Scotia, but they faced inadequate support on arrival. The government was slow to survey their land (which meant they could not settle) and awarded them smaller grants in less convenient locations than those of white settlers in ...
Thomas Peters, born Thomas Potters (1738 – 25 June 1792), [1] was a veteran of the Black Pioneers, fighting for the British in the American Revolutionary War. A Black Loyalist, he was resettled in Nova Scotia, where he became a politician and one of the "Founding Fathers" of the nation of Sierra Leone in West Africa.
The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution (2nd ed. 1992) pp. 230–319. Brands, H.W.. Our First Civil War: Patriots and Loyalists in the American Revolution. New York: Anchor Books 2022. ISBN 978-0-593-08256-0; Brannon, Rebecca. From Revolution to Reunion: The Reintegration of the South Carolina Loyalists. Columbia: University of South ...
Richard Pierpoint (c. 1744 – c. 1837) was a Senegalese-born farmer and soldier.Brought as a slave to British North America via the Atlantic slave trade, he fought as a Black Loyalist in the American Revolutionary War.
Titus Cornelius, also known as Titus, Tye, and famously as Colonel Tye (c. 1753 – September 1780), was a slave of African descent in the Province of New Jersey who escaped from his master and fought as a Black Loyalist during the American Revolutionary War; he was known for his leadership and