How photographer Russell Hart used B&W mode to transform a "hodgepodge of colors" into an emotional masterpiece ...

American colonists who aligned with the British lost their lands, their reputations and sometimes even their lives ...

and his “motley crew” included a few dozen Black loyalists who were promised freedom if they sided with the crown. Their encampment at Sandy Hook became known as Refugeetown — “where the ...

The great majority were neutral or Loyalist. For black people, what mattered most ... despite the fact that they had fought side by side with their white counterparts at the battles of Lexington ...

It’s now a museum, showcasing stories of the Black Loyalists. “I have noticed that everyone that comes here, white or Black or otherwise, always wants to learn more,” says Andrea Davis ...

They meet in the name of "Southern Loyalists," of whom, in their sense, nine-tenths are black; yet the question of black enfranchisement looms before them in proportions which frighten the more ...

Davis, the executive director of the Black Loyalist Heritage Society, operates its museum in Birchtown, only a few kilometres southwest of Shelburne. She said its predecessor, the society's ...