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Boston King and the Black Loyalists of the American Revolution


Boston King and the Black Loyalists of the American Revolution

Boston King (c.1760-1802) was one of these 'black Loyalists'. His autobiography is one of only a handful of accounts of the Revolution written by rank-and-file ...

Boston King

Boston King was born as a slave near Charleston, South Carolina. King's father was the 'driver' at his plantation and as such was given certain privileges.

Boston King – Voices of the American Revolution

This excerpt is extracted from Memoirs of the Life of Boston King, A Black Preacher written by Boston King. · King was born enslaved near Charleston, South ...

Africans in America/Part 2/Leaving America - PBS

Boston King was one of the many enslaved African Americans -- perhaps as many as 100,000 -- who risked punishment and even death in order to reach the ...

Boston King - Wikipedia

1760–1802) was a former American slave and Black Loyalist, who gained freedom from the British and settled in Nova Scotia after the American Revolutionary War.

I Began to Feel the Happiness, Liberty, of which I Knew Nothing Before

Realizing that their best chance of emancipation lay with the British army, as many as 100,000 enslaved African Americans became Loyalists during the War ...

Boston King recalls fighting for the British and for his freedom, 1798

He served as a Loyalist in the British Army, and participated in several important battles. Although captured, and once again enslaved by the Americans, King ...

Boston King - Equiano's World

(c. 1760 - 1802) ... Boston King was one of the first black loyalists and Methodist missionaries to settle in Sierra Leone in 1791, as well as being a prominent ...

Boston King (c. 1760-1802) • - Blackpast

In 1780, when British troops occupied Charleston during the American Revolution, King fled to the British garrison and gained his freedom. King ...

Boston King - BIMAAR

Born into slavery in South Carolina, King obtained his liberty by running away to British-occupied territories and working for the Loyalist troops during the ...

Boston King Friends Article - John Wesley's New Room

Once he had recovered King marched as a Black Loyalist and he records in his memoirs how he undertook a dangerous mission through enemy lines in December 1780 ...

Boston King's 'Memoirs' - Black Loyalist Heritage Society

revolution · exile ... About eight months after, we were employed in building a storehouse, and nails were very dear at that time, it being in the American ...

Boston King: Black Loyalist, Minister, African Colonial Leader

Boston King: Black Loyalist, Minister, African Colonial Leader · When the British attacked Charleston (Charlestown), South Carolina in the spring ...

The Life of Boston King: Black Loyalist, Minister and Master Carpenter

Back in Print! In the summer of 1783, at the end of the American Revolution, several thousand Black men, women and children left New York City with the ...

Black Loyalists in the Evacuation of New York City, 1783

Black Loyalists in the Evacuation of New York City, 1783By L. Goulet and Mary Tsaltas-OttomanelliFrom 1776, the city stood as the stronghold ...

KING, BOSTON – Dictionary of Canadian Biography

1783, 3,000 black loyalists were shipped to Nova Scotia. King, described as a “Stout fellow” aged 23, embarked with his wife on L'Abondance and sailed for Port ...

Identity during the American Revolution | United States History 1 (OS ...

Boyrereau Brinch and Boston King on the Revolutionary War. In the ... After the Revolution, some of these African Loyalists emigrated to Sierra Leone on the west ...

Blacks as American Loyalists: The Slaves' War for Independence

Nell, Colored Patriots of the American Revolution (Boston, 1855, ... 368-369, 44 Return of Negroes." !4Quarles, American Revolution , p. 115; Boston King, " ...

Africans in America | Part 2 | The Revolutionary War - PBS

Boston King was an escaped slave who joined up with the Loyalists and later documented his experience. When he reached the black Loyalist encampment, it was a ...

Black Loyalists in British North America | The Canadian Encyclopedia

One notable Black person who obtained his freedom by fighting for the British in the American Revolution was Richard Pierpoint , an African man ...