Friday, January 4, 2019: 10:50 AM
International South (Hilton Chicago)
Black loyalists left Nova Scotia in 1792 for Africa, where they lived under the Sierra Leone Company. In 1800 they rose against Company rule and composed a brief code of “settlers’ laws” to govern themselves. The laws that they wrote shed interesting light on constitutionalism in the Age of Revolution.
See more of: Loyalism in the Age of Atlantic Revolutions, Part 2: New Research
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