Stephen Bluck

Stephen Bluck

Colonel Stephen Bluck (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 Shelburne, Nova Scotia in 1783[2] and became a teacher and one of the Nova Scotia Black Loyalists.

References

  1. ^ Brown, Wallace (1969). The good Americans: the loyalists in the American Revolution. William Morrow and Company. p. 203. 
  2. ^ Clarkson, John (1971). Clarkson's mission to America 1791-1792. Public Archives of Nova Scotia. p. 191. 

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