Black Canadians | The Canadian Encyclopedia
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Black people have lived in what is now Canada since the 1600s. The earliest Black inhabitants in Canada were enslaved. ( See Marie-Joseph Angélique.) At the same time, approximately 3,500 free Black persons emigrated from the US and settled in what became Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. They had won
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- Black people have lived in what is now Canada since the 1600s. The earliest Black inhabitants in Canada were enslaved. ( See Marie-Joseph Angélique.)
- At the same time, approximately 3,500 free Black persons emigrated from the US and settled in what became Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. They had won their freedom due to their support for Britain during the American Revolution.
- In 1792, almost 1,200 Black Loyalists sailed from Halifax to West Africa, where they founded the new settlement of Freetown in Sierra Leone.
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