Stephen Blucke

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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. Like many Black Loyalists, he came to the Maritimes after the war, settled in Birchtown, Nova Scotia, Nova Scotia in 1783^[2] and became a teacher and one of the Nova Scotia Black Loyalists. He has been referred to as "the true founder of the Afro-Nova Scotian community".^[3]

References

↑ Brown, Wallace (1969). The good Americans: the loyalists in the American Revolution. William Morrow and Company. p. 203.
↑ Clarkson, John (1971). Clarkson's mission to America 1791-1792. Public Archives of Nova Scotia. p. 191.
↑ Barry Cahill. Stephen Blucke: The Perils of Being a "White Negro" in Loyalist Nova Scotia. Nova Scotia Historical Review. 1999. No.1, p. 129

External links

Gail Ito, Blucke, Colonel Stephen ( --1792) at blackpast.org

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Date of death	1792
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