Although they were known as "freedmen," they weren't really free in Canada either, being given the poorest land. Black Nova Scotians instead established what British colony for freed slaves in West Africa?

As the American Revolution broke out, "Loyalists" (those colonists loyal to the Crown) fled to Nova Scotia and Québec, along with freedmen and slaves. About a decade after its end, in 1792, Blacks who were given poor land in Nova Scotia established a British colony for freed slaves in Sierra Leone called Freetown.

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