Black Community Files

Black Loyalist History
Birchtown Plaque

Black Loyalist Heritage Society
(External link)

We have available family files for:

Along with community files including the following:

• Land Grants
• Birchtown Archaeology
• First Black Magazine
• Black Clergy
• Black Settlement in Digby
• List of those Travelling to Sierra Leone

We also have other valuable resources:

• Carleton's Book of Negros, 3 volumes
• Muster Book of Free Blacks, Settlement of Bichtown, 1784. Compiled by Mark Scott.
• The Black Battalion, 1916 - 1920: Canada's Best Kept Military Secret. Calvin W. Ruck
• The Black Loyalist Directory: African Americans in Exile after the American Revolution. Edited by Graham Russel Hodges.
• Birchtown Archaelogical Survey (1993): The Black Loyalist Settlement of Shelburne Co., NS, Canada. Compiled by Laird Niven. Sponsored by the Shelburne County Cultural Awareness Society.
• The Mirgration of Carolina and Georgia Loyalists to Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. Troxler Georgia Carole W, Degree date: 1974.
• Stephen Blucke: The Peril of Being a "White Negro" in Loyalist Nova Scotia. Barry Cahill: Nova Scotia Historical Review. Volume 11, #1.
• Fire on Water: An anthology of Black Nova Scotia Writing. George Elliott Clark: Includes writings of David George, John Marrant, and Boston King. All were early residents of Shelburne.
• Clarkson's mission to American 1791 - 1792. A journal of Clarkson's travels to Nova Scotia and accounts of people he met in the Shelburne area. Includes list of Blacks going to Sierra Leone.
• Black Immigrants to Nova Scotia. John Grant
• Black Nova Scotians. John Grant
• An Unclouded Day. A brief account of Black Loyalists.
• David George: Black Loyalist. Kathleen Tudor. A former slave, an educated man, a Black Loyalist, a Baptist Minister was an influential man in the early days of Shelburne.
• The Black Loyalists: The Search for a Promised land in Nova Scotia and Sierra Leone 1783 - 1870. James W. St. G. Walker. Includes establishment at Birchtown.

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Last modified May 16, 2002.