Lesson 14:Thomas Peters A Remarkable Man

Peters and his community waited for their land. They
worked building roads to earn their provisions. They were
kept apart from white Loyalist settlers. They had to live in
very poor settlements.
Thomas Peters wrote to the governor of Nova Scotia.
He asked the governor for the land. The governor finally
gave some black Loyalist families one-acre “town plots.”
But the black Loyalists never received their large farming
plots. The families barely survived.
Peters kept trying to persuade the governor to give the
promised farmlands. But all his efforts were unsuccessful.
The black families did not receive the land.
In 1790, Peters traveled to Great
Britain. He decided to ask the British
government in person. He would
speak for hundreds of black
Loyalists. The long trip to London,
England, was risky. The ship had to
cross the Atlantic Ocean. Pirates
could have captured Peters. They
might have enslaved him again.
Peters sailed to England in 1790,
possibly on a ship like this one.
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