![]() British Freedom had title to forty acres, and another one and a half of what the lawyers' clerks in Halifax were pleased to call a "town lot." Now he was a hardscrabbler stuck in a wind-whipped corner of the world between the blue spruce forest and the sea. Like most of the Preston people, British Freedom was black and had come from a warmer place. Along with a few hundred other souls - Scipio Yearman, Phoebe Barrett, Jeremiah Piggie and Smart Feller among them - he was scratching a living from the stingy soil around Preston, a few miles northeast of Halifax, Nova Scotia. Ten years after the surrender of George III's army to General Washington at Yorktown, British Freedom was hanging on in North America. ![]() ![]() By the thousands, Africans enslaved by American colonists chose to fight for Britain in the Revolutionary War. ![]()
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