Thomas Peters
Black Loyalist founding father of Sierra Leone · Politicians · Lived 1738 to 1792 · aged 54
Thomas Peters was a veteran of the Black Pioneers, fighting for the British in the American Revolutionary War. A Black Loyalist, he was resettled in Nova Scotia, where he became a politician and one of the "Founding Fathers" of the nation of Sierra Leone in West Africa.
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![Lawrence Hartshorne, d. 1822, a Quaker who was the chief assistant of John Clarkson (abolitionist) in helping the Black Nova Scotian Settlers emigrate to Sierra Leone (1792), Old Burying Ground (Halifax, Nova Scotia)[18]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7d/Lawrence_Hartshorne%2C_Old_Burying_Ground%2C_Halifax%2C_Nova_Scotia.jpg/500px-Lawrence_Hartshorne%2C_Old_Burying_Ground%2C_Halifax%2C_Nova_Scotia.jpg)
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Peters was among a group of influential Black Canadians who pressed the Crown to fulfill its commitment for land grants in Nova Scotia. Later they recruited African-American settlers in Nova Scotia for the colonisation of Sierra Leone in the late eighteenth century.
