Thomas Peters (revolutionary), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Black Loyalist founding father of Sierra Leone
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Place of Birth: Nigeria
About Thomas Peters (revolutionary)
- Thomas Peters, born Thomas Potters (25 June 1738 – 1792), 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.
- 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.
- Enslaved in the Province of North Carolina, Peters emancipated himself and joined British forces during the American Revolutionary War.
- He served as a Black Loyalist in the Black Company of Pioneers in New York and was evacuated with British forces and many other former slaves at the end of the war.
- Thomas Peters has been called the "first African-American hero".
- Like Elijah Johnson and Joseph Jenkins Roberts of Liberia, Peters is considered the African-American founding father of a nation, in this case, Sierra Leone.
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