BYERS, PETER, known as Black Peter

FLOYD, HENRY, known as Black Harry

PIERPOINT (Parepoint, Pawpine), RICHARD, also known as Captain Dick and Black Dick

MARRANT, JOHN, freeborn Black American, author, and minister of the Countess of Huntingdon’s Connexion; b

, another slave, and began a family. Soon afterwards, upon being introduced to the Christian religion by a fellow black, he started attending religious services held on the estate by George Liele, a free

. unmarried 7 Oct. 1918 near Cambrai, France. Rankin Wheary was a young black man who served with the Canadian infantry in World War

minority of black loyalists with specialized skills, many of whom plied their trades in the British service, but the absence of tools forced him to seek alternative employment as a servant. Like countless

James Thomas, the Welsh-born leader of the black Baptists in Nova Scotia. Although his grandfather died when James was three years old, he benefited from the Thomas family connection, which produced

. The eldest child of a prominent black abolitionist, Mary Ann Camberton Shadd was ten when her family left Wilmington for West Chester, Pa, where she was educated at a Quaker boarding-school. After six

. Anderson R. Abbott was born into a prominent black family in Toronto. After his parents’ store in Alabama had been ransacked, they moved to the northern states. They lived a short time in New York, but

Richmond, Virginia, son of a Scotch-Irish father and a free Black mother; d

PETERS (Petters), THOMAS, black soldier and leader; b

 Catharines. By 1845 it had become a centre of black migration, for free persons as well as ex-slaves from the United States. Ball more than likely knew Harriet Tubman

the War of 1812. Having escaped from plantations in the United States, they travelled along its eastern seaboard in British naval vessels, and in 1815 the majority of the refugee blacks were settled in

JACKSON, LYDIA, indentured Black woman, b. possibly in the early 1760s; d. after 1792

the Fugitive, the first black newspaper in Upper Canada, at Sandwich on 1 Jan. 1851. A bi-weekly, the Voice militantly attacked racial bigotry, advocating the immediate end to

late 1828 as a peripatetic leader of scattered black families between Niagara (Niagara-on-the-Lake) and Dundas. He prepared two petitions to secure land for a settlement that would draw together black

buried in Mount Pleasant Cemetery. James F. Jenkins grew up in a Black community in central Georgia during an era of racism and hostility towards

. McKerrow emerged as the most articulate and one of the most active and respected black secular leaders of the last quarter of the 19th

have been an enigma. He had made his way north to Nova Scotia in search of his mother, one of about 2,000 Black refugees who had left the United States during the

black slaves. States’s engaging forenames suggest that his great-grandfather McCulla may have been one of the several Waterloo veterans who settled in Nova Scotia after the end of the Napoleonic Wars in

. 1901 in Revere, Mass. George Godfrey was born in the Bog, a poor part of Charlottetown’s West End. The area had a high concentration of blacks

NAME UNRECORDED, enslaved Black youth, b. c. 1772 in an American colony; d. likely after 1786

destroyed in 1864, near the end of the Civil War, but with reconstruction came gradual improvement in the lives of the black inhabitants. By 1866 black churches, mostly Baptist, had begun to form in King and

WILLOUGHBY, ISAAC, enslaved Black man and farmer; b. c. 1760, probably in Rhode Island; d. after 1834

MARIE-JOSEPH-ANGÉLIQUE, black slave; b. c. 1710; hanged 21 June 1734 in Montreal

educated by Quakers and became a teacher in black schools. In January 1838 he married a Miss Reynolds while he was teaching in Newark, N.J.; they were to have one son. Ward was licensed to preach in May

 years, eking out an impoverished existence as a market gardener and farmer. British Columbia’s first black immigrants had arrived from San

escaped slave, James Davis came to Upper Canada via the Underground Railroad in 1850; later, with his wife and children, he took up a farm in the black settlement of New Canaan in northern Colchester

 19, and settled in Toronto. Two years later he and Eliza Jane Campbell, a young black woman from Bowmanville, were married by Baptist minister Thomas Ford

. 1856 Mrs Nancy Gamble, a free black widow; d. 5 May 1883 at Dresden

. there 21 April 1909. A. B. Walker’s loyalist ancestor was among the first blacks to settle on the Kingston peninsula

man by the name of Fortune appears on any musters of Black soldiers, but he may have served the British forces in other ways. Although Fortune and

would cause seizures and bouts of somnolence for the rest of her life. In 1844 she married a free black, John Tubman, and she would retain Tubman as her surname after her second marriage. Fearing that she

status of black Nova Scotians. He left Bulmer’s employ about the same time that James Robinson Johnston*, the province’s first black

Ontario’s black community. Trained initially in Toronto as a teacher, he taught for at least a year at the same racially segregated school in Chatham in which he had been educated. Later he began medical

Couillard. At his baptism this black man had received the Christian name Olivier in honour of Olivier Letardif, the

a business, a privilege accorded to few Black residents in this period; he was thus a member of the small group of Black businessmen who

West End. He was a third-generation descendant of John Byers, known as Black Jack, and his wife, Amelia, a slave couple brought to St John’s (Prince Edward) Island by Lieutenant-Colonel Joseph

, Md. Richard Randolph Disney was a free-born black, although his parents had known slavery. While working in Baltimore he felt called to

STATIA (Hopefield) (she may also have been known as Patience and Stach), enslaved Black woman; b

, Ont. Susannah Stokes was born to free black parents. Orphaned at an early age, she was indentured to a white family, with whom she remained

. A year later the black community decided to emigrate. Possible destinations such as Panama and Mexico were discussed, but Vancouver Island was selected, partly because of the news that had just come

YORK, JACK, black slave; fl

to Alexander Bailey, a city truckman and Baptist pastor in Halifax County, especially Beech Hill. Both her brother and her second husband were related to the Thomas family, the leading black Baptist

BESTIAN, DIANA, enslaved Black female, b. probably 1777, likely in Albany, N.Y.; she had a child whose twin did not survive; d

. unmarried 25 Aug. 1904 in Avonport, N.S. William Hall grew up on the banks of the Avon River. His father, one of the black refugees

become world bantamweight champion, the first black and the first Canadian to win a world boxing title. The claim by Dixon that he was also

MacLean*]. People moved from Vancouver Island to the mainland in search of jobs, and a number of blacks came as well from eastern

by the heroes of the cowboy subculture of this frontier. What distinguishes John Ware is that he was black and that he has become a symbol of racial tolerance

degree of interracial acceptance between Indigenous people and Black slaves in Île Royale. The Laurents’ immediate living conditions are unknown, but

Halifax poorhouse. John Kellum was a black resident of underclass Halifax, where members of minority racial and ethnic groups struggled for

black lawyer from Amherstburg, and Mahlon K. Cowan of Windsor. At his trial in April 1893, before justice William Purvis Rochfort Street, the homicide was not in dispute; the only question lay

 June, 14 July, 18 Aug. 1842. R. W. Winks, The blacks in Canada: a history (Montreal, 1971). A. L. Murray, “The extradition of fugitive slaves from Canada: a re

NANCY (possibly also known as Ann), enslaved Black woman; b. c. 1762 in Maryland; d. after