Stephen Blucke

Colonel Stephen Blucke (born c. 1752) led the Black Pioneers during the American Revolution.[1] The Black Pioneers were a black regiment who fought for the British. Stephen Blucke took over the fighting Black Brigade and led it through the end of the war.[2] Like many Black Loyalists, he came to the Maritimes after the war, settled in Birchtown, Nova Scotia, Nova Scotia in 1783[3] and became a teacher and taught at one of the Bray Schools.[4] He has been referred to as "the true founder of the Afro-Nova Scotian community".[5]

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References

  1. ↑ Brown, Wallace (1969). The good Americans: the loyalists in the American Revolution. William Morrow and Company. p. 203.
  2. ↑ Jonathan D. Sutherland, African Americans at War, ABC-CLIO, 2003, pp. 420-421, accessed 4 May 2010
  3. ↑ Clarkson, John (1971). Clarkson's mission to America 1791-1792. Public Archives of Nova Scotia. p. 191.
  4. ↑ Loyalists and Layabouts, p. 219, note 68
  5. ↑ Barry Cahill. Stephen Blucke: The Perils of Being a "White Negro" in Loyalist Nova Scotia. Nova Scotia Historical Review. 1999. No.1, p. 129

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