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   Their knowledge of building came not from books or blueprints but from plantation quarters and military trenching—adapted now, poorly, to northern latitudes they had never known. And as they labored to construct homes from forest and frost, they were denied the timber that had been stockpiled in nearby Shelburne, denied the farm plots that white settlers had claimed for themselves.
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   Image: Reconstruction of Black settlers shelters after arriving in NS. Black Loyalists Heritage Center.