3,000 Black Loyalists Evacuated to Nova Scotia — Book of Negroes Compiled

At the end of the Revolutionary War, British forces evacuated approximately 3,000 Black Loyalists to Nova Scotia, recorded in a document called the Book of Negroes — a registry of formerly enslaved people who had reached British lines. Most settled at Birchtown near Shelburne, Nova Scotia, the largest free Black settlement in North America at the time. They faced severe discrimination: given smaller and less fertile land grants than white Loyalists, barred from many trades, and subjected to viol