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They landed with nothing but their names, their memories, and the inked promise of liberty—names logged by British officials in New York, names which had once belonged to property now claimed by themselves. In the summer of 1783, the Black Loyalists arrived in Nova Scotia not as refugees but as free men and women. Or so they were told.
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Image: Black Soldier, Rhode Island Regiment, by Jean Baptiste Antoine de Verger, Williamsburg, Virginia, circa 1781-1784.