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cited references. You should add verifiable, authoritative sources to support additional information. Virtually every referenced source for this article identifies the Nova Scotia settlers as being part of the Black
Loyalist migration of escaped slaves who fled America from New York first to Nova Scotia and then to Sierra Leone. If you have a authoritative source that shows only a tiny number of the Nova Scotians were part of this group, please cite it. Simon Schama's book is a popular work that doesn't tell the complete story - no book ever does - but he is a highly respected international scholar who based his work on many other scholarly sources. I understand your opinion that you dislike the term Black Loyalists but Knowledge is about facts not opinions and the fact is that virtually all the verifiable authoritative sources use this term which has a specific and identifiable meaning. I think we both agree with you that this group used the term Nova Scotians and Settlers to describe themselves. I don't see any cited evidence that they called themselves Americans - that seems to be by your examples what passing white observers called them or people like Thomas Jefferson who regarded them as merely fugitive slaves. In any case, surely the description African American and Black Loyalist can co-exist in this article as reflecting different ways of identifying this important movement of people in search of freedom.
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who chose to go to West Africa, and the title is misleading. The article appears to have been renamed or moved (perhaps copied and pasted?), I suspect from an original with a more appropriate title. What would be the best solution? To research and write about the 1816 group, and place that here, and
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I might add that in Ellen Gibson Wilson's Loyal Blacks, James St. George Walker's Black
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They did not refer to themselves as black loyalists. The group included at least one slave of a
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I agree with Option 1. Most of this content should be in an article entitled "Nova
Scotian Settlers (Sierra Leone)". This group of people called themselves "Nova Scotians", not "African Americans", and almost all the historians who have studied this migration also use the term "The Nova Scotians".
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Britain fuelled the desire for independence amongst White Americans. Further as regards the Black Loyalists in general and the Sierra Leone settlers in particular, they stated very clearly that they were British - and
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Scotian settlers and your desire to explore the connections between the Sierra Leone settlers and and North America. However Knowledge is about citing verifiable, authoritative sources. Some of your edits make statements that are not supported by the
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Scotian Settlers and I have conducted research on them in the National Archives of Nova Scotia, the United Kingdom, and United States. I have also read numerous secondary sources including Rough Crossings) which encompasses or deals specifically with their history
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There is no doubt that Simon Schama is a highly reputable historian; but the sources I am referring to (which I said I could refer to you explicity) were cited in Schama's and by his own admission were used to write Rough
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They were African Americans and I can provide numerous sources that they were indeed considered as such. Granville Sharp referred to them as 'American negroes'. They were said to be distinguishable by their 'American tone', they were referred to as 'American blacks' by one visitor, and when the
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This article seems to have a problem with one user who keeps deleting any reference to "Black Loyalists". As noted above, the majority of the historiography on this subject sees The Nova Scotian settlers are part of the Black Loyalist migration. Other terms can certainly be used to describe the
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This article should concern itself with African American settlers, rather than dealing with Black Loyalists, who by self-definition were not Americans. There was a substantial group of African Americans who arrived in 1816, but otherwise they did not arrive in large numbers.
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that this should be accepted by the British government and more particularly the British Navy. We need to recognise the importance of this political identity. I have just checked the reference about African Americans coming to Sierra Leone. There were 38 who arrived on the
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This article seems confused or confusing,referring that all Nova Scotians were black or possible american,its misleading,what about the british that were in nova scotia at the this time,if nova scotia was a colony they were part of it,they were also nova scotian
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I wish the matter were so simple. Some time ago I put which was completely ignored. I do not see the distinction between colonial America and slavery at that time and the development of the United States as either trivial or inevitable. Having recently read
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They were called the 'Nova Scotians' because they immigrated to Sierra Leone via Nova Scotia instead of coming directly from the United States. They more commonly called themselves the 'Settlers' and the area they lived in 'Settler Town'.
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It should be remembered the American at times referred to North America in general, but in some cases the Settlers were specifically linked with American Republicanism and Southern slavery that marked the newly formed United States.
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This group of blacks also spoke an early form of African American Vernacular English and introduced American Southern colonial architecture in Freetown. According to one visitor Freetown said to resemble Washington D.C.
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source for the 'Black Loyalist' reference that had been recently included and saw it did make reference to this specific group as Loyalists. Because of this I did not remove the term in reference to this group again.
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I have taken the liberty of giving this discussion a title. I heartily agree that the two subjects deserve different articles, wikilinked of course. The trouble is that this one, as it exists, deals mainly with those
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They were 'American' born but were not legal American citizens. That is they were cultural black Americans but were denied legal rights as citizens of the United States. There is a difference.
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