February is Black History Month. Throughout this month The Royal Gazette will feature people, events, places and institutions that have contributed to the shaping of African history. The Black ...

The town was first settled by Black British Loyalists after the American Revolution, who left New York harbors in 1783 seeking freedom. Just as I did as a toddler, crossing the vast Atlantic Ocean ...

As the American Revolutionary War raged, thousands of slaves fled their owners and joined ranks with the British army, buoyed by hopes of winning freedom and defeating their colonial oppressors. There ...

SAINT JOHN, N.B. — As Cantabrigians, we’ve always felt a twinge of sympathy for the Tories who fled their fancy homes on Brattle Street during the American Revolution. Not that we would have preferred ...

Although the proportion is likely exaggerated, it has traditionally been believed that about a third of the people of the Thirteen Colonies during the Revolutionary War were “Tories”. But while ...

So you think Thomas Jefferson and Patrick Henry were patriotic heroes? Come to Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada, and think again. When you visit this largest city in the maritime province, you hear a ...

For eight months in 1777, an American Loyalist—pledging continued allegiance to the British crown in the early stages of the American Revolution—found himself in solitary confinement in Connecticut’s ...