Black Loyalists of Annapolis County

More than  2,700 Black Loyalists: free, indentured, apprenticed, or still enslaved , arrived in Nova Scotia in 1783 alone as a result of the American Revolution. By 1785, they were the largest group of people of African birth and of African descent to come to Nova Scotia at any one time. Annapolis County property transaction records show Black Loyalist names as early as 1784. Local historian  Ian Lawrence  made his original research available to Mapannapolis, it forms the framework for this story map.

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Acknowledgements

Mapannapolis' community mapping project was integrated into the COEP4082 Community Mapping Course at the Centre of Geographic Sciences in Lawrencetown, Nova Scotia. The web map was completed by COGS's student Ian Foley as part of  Black Loyalist  project, and contains three layers: Black Loyalist Properties, 19th Century Black Settlements, and 19th Century Black Settlements Locations. This project was inspired by the research of local historian and writer, Ian Lawrence.

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