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Nova Scotian Settlers

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off two Nova Scotian boys as slaves. Zachary Macauley demanded all the supplies the Nova Scotians had managed to take from the French back. Many a Methodist preacher declared it was the judgment of God against their evil Caucasian oppressors. The aftermath of this was that Nathaniel Snowball and Luke Jordan established their own colony on Pirate's Bay to live as free men just as the Ezerlites.
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Cato Preston, Eli Ackim, William Easmon, and John Kizell were forced to give up their homes because of business ventures gone wrong. In the 1826 census, about half of the Nova Scotian males were skilled artisans and only three were listed as unskilled workers. Initially, the Nova Scotians were allowed to use the American currency,
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referred to these people as "the fugitives from these States". The US appealed to have the slaves returned, but the British refused. As part of its compensation to Loyalists, the Crown also settled white Loyalists in Nova Scotia, and the western frontier of Upper Canada (Ontario). It made land grants
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and David Edmonds kept alehouses in the 1790s. Settler women were independent and were employed as schoolteachers and in other roles. Some established schools and acted as schoolteachers. Extramarital affairs were also prominent in the community and some Settler men had mistresses and provided for
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as spoken by people drawn from the lower classes, regardless of whether White or Black. James Walker noted that Settler pronunciation and grammar originated in the American South and was "perpetuated as the language of their preachers and teachers, and was regarded, in the nineteenth century, as a
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over whom the French Commodore had little control. The Settlers offered the only resistance to the French during this time period. The Settlers assured the French that they were β€œBritons from North America” and were friends of the French. Despite showing they were Britons, the French still carried
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In 1792, the Nova Scotians founded and established Free Town in Sierra Leone. They based its plan on what they were familiar with: the grid of a North American colonial town plan. When they learned the Sierra Leone Company had reserved the best waterfront land for its own use, tensions arose. Soon
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After settling in Sierra Leone, many Nova Scotian blacks intermarried with Europeans as the colony developed. The Nova Scotians' political ideology of a democratic, representative government was at odds with the Sierra Leone Company's managing an imperialistic colony. The Nova Scotians referred to
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were situated in Western Freetown. The Maroons were still distinct but became a more solid group and adopted some Settler values and customs. The Maroons became a cohesive trading unit, they displaced the Nova Scotians as the main traders in Sierra Leone in the 1820s. Nova Scotian traders such as
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The Granville Town settlers were initially separate from the Nova Scotian community. After Methodist teaching to the Granville Town settlers, they were slowly incorporated into the society of the Nova Scotians. Nova Scotians like Boston King were schoolteachers to the children of Granville Town
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In the late eighteenth century, the black Nova Scotians were offered a choice to emigrate to a new colony being established by Great Britain in West Africa, intended for the resettlement of blacks from London (who were also mostly African Americans resettled after the Revolution), and some free
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The Nova Scotians were exceptional traders and some of the houses they built in Settler Town, which were initially built of wood with stone foundations, were renovated or upgraded into stone houses. At this time, the Nova Scotians lived in Eastern Freetown and the
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Upon arrival in Nova Scotia, the Black Loyalist settlers faced many difficulties because of discrimination. They received less land, fewer provisions, and were paid lower wages than White Loyalists. Some fell into debt and had to sign terms of
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is an offshoot of Rawdon Methodist; it was founded by wealthy Nova Scotians. Many Settler families were forced to sell their land because of debt; families such as the Balls, the Burdens, the Chambers, the Dixons, the Georges (descendants of
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books, which have examined how they brought "America" to Africa, because they naturally carried their culture with them. They founded the first permanent ex-slave colony in West Africa, and it was influential throughout the region.
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themselves as the "Settlers" or "Nova Scotians" in Sierra Leone. Later scholars would describe them as "Afro-American", in reference to their ethnicity and particular historical origin in that culture of the Thirteen Colonies.
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or Stephen Peters), the Prestons, the Snowballs, the Staffords, the Turners, the Willoughsby, the Williams, and the Goodings. Some descendants of James Wise and other settlers were able to keep their land in Settler Town.
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and other transatlantic immigrants contributed toward the development of Freetown, the 1200 Nova Scotian Settlers were the single greatest Western black influence. The Nova Scotian Settlers have been the subject of many
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serving under the Royal Navy from 22 January 1808 to 27 April 1809, arrived from New York with 82 African Americans, the British did not permit them to land or settle in Freetown. These Novia Scotians, led by
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In neighboring Sierra Leone, the analogous group of liberated Africans delivered there by the British Navy are generally seen as having played a crucial role in the evolution of Krio.
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Sivapragasam, Michael, "Why Did Black Londoners not join the Sierra Leone Resettlement Scheme 1783–1815?" Unpublished Master's dissertation (London: Open University, 2013), p. 45.
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or songs originating in Sierra Leone satirizing Europeans. An analysis of extant letters written by the Settlers has shown a majority of Settlers spoke a variant of
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Because of friction between the independent Nova Scotia settlers and British authorities, no further resettlement of Novia Scotians followed. When the
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and immigrated to Sierra Leone. The majority of free blacks did remain in Nova Scotia and made communities. Their descendants today comprise the
323:(1792-1797) the French attacked and burned Freetown in September 1794. For over two weeks the settlement was subject to the depredations of the 466:
but retained many cultural habits similar to Africans in North America and Britain. The descendants of the Nova Scotian settlers (who are the
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and remained a distinct ethnic group within the Freetown territory, tending to marry among themselves and with Europeans in the colony.
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from Jamaica and resettled them in this colony. They mixed with the Novia Scotians, and this Settler part of Freetown became known as
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The Settlers had dance nights called 'Koonking' or 'Koonken' or 'Konken,' where Settler maidens would sing songs they brought from
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on January 15, 1792, and arrived in Sierra Leone between February 28 and March 9, 1792. About 65 passengers died en route.
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settlers. However, up until 1800, the "Old Settlers" (as the Granville Towners were called) remained in their own town.
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The town grid was laid out by the Sierra Leone company's British surveyor Richard Pepys. Schama, pp. 352-253
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Some of the settlers bore children during their nine-year sojourn in Nova Scotia; these children were
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working-class people of the time. As was common for North Americans of African descent, many had some
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and the "bod oses" of their modern-day descendants are some of their cultural imprints. Although the
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The Black Loyalists: The Search for a Promised Land in Nova Scotia and Sierra Leone, 1783–1870
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blacks from the Caribbean. In 1792, approximately 1,192 Black Nova Scotian Settlers left
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Western Africa and Cabo Verde, 1790s-1830s: Symbiosis of Slave and Legitimate Trades
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Our Children Free and Happy: Letters from Black Settlers in Africa in the 1790s
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Reclaiming the Women of Britain's First Mission to West Africa: Three Lives
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The Nova Scotian Settlers to Sierra Leone tended to speak early forms of
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The Settler descendants gradually developed as an ethnicity known as the
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Becoming African in America: Race and Nation in the Early Black Atlantic
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GRANT, John N (1973): "Black immigrants into Nova Scotia, 1776–1815".
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Fifteen ships, the first fleet to bring Free blacks to Africa, left
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One visitor to Sierra Leone distinguished the Settlers from other
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Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution
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distinct dialect." Many Nova Scotians drank alcohol heavily and
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to households and offered supplies to help them get settled.
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Relationship between Black Nova Scotians and Black Americans
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Notable Nova Scotian Settlers and their Creole descendants
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Free Slaves, Freetown, and the Sierra Leonean Civil War
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for resettlement, and their names were recorded in the
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But its forces also evacuated 3,000 former slaves to
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because of the "American tone" or accent, common to
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Lawrence Hartshorne
John Clarkson
Black Canadians
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Freetown
Sierra Leone and the Colony of Sierra Leone
American Revolutionary War
Black Loyalists
Thomas Peters
John Clarkson
Settler Town
Sierra Leone Creole people
Loan words
Krio language
Jamaican Maroons
social science
American Revolutionary War
British
American War of Independence
Nova Scotia
Book of Negroes
Virginia
South Carolina
Maryland
Georgia
North Carolina
Thomas Jefferson
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