Lesson 14:Thomas Peters A Remarkable Man

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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. 13
The Sierra Leone Company Finally, Thomas Peters arrived safely in England. There he met a man named Granville Sharp. Sharp was famous for working against slavery. Sharp helped Peters deliver a petition, or written request, to the British government. The petition listed every aspect of the black Loyalists’ problems. They had not received the promised farmlands. They had not received tools or provisions. But that was not all. The British denied the black Loyalists many rights. A black Loyalist could not have a trial by jury. A black Loyalist could not bring problems to courts of law. A black Loyalist could not vote. Granville Sharp offered more help to Peters. Sharp told Peters about the Sierra Leone Company. This company was created by Sharp and other British abolitionists, or people who wanted to end slavery. The abolitionists wanted to create a colony in Sierra Leone, Africa. This colony would be a place for freed Africans. The first attempt to establish the colony failed. Now the abolitionists were looking for a new group to settle in Sierra Leone. 14
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