Blacklantic podcasters have been digging into the Provincial Archives in search of New Brunswick's Black history.
on Black Loyalists, they were some of the first Black settlers in New Brunswick. They arrived following a promise of land grants from the British crown following the American Revolutionary War in 1783.They were sometimes given access to land but not ownership, he said, or were given undesirable land far from existing settlements.Black History Month: Systemic racism review conducted in the 1960s reveals issues that persist today"They were oppressed," said Davis.
"They would rather leave New Brunswick and Nova Scotia and go to an African country that they know nothing about," said LeBlanc, "because they are being so heavily racially profiled here."Startling letters from the Provincial Archives of New Brunswick show a years-long appeal to the New Brunswick government in the early 1900s to hire a teacher for one of the Black schools in the community of Otnabog near Gagetown, now known as Elm Hill.
"No one is there. And various members of the Black Community urge for a Black teacher to be hired so that the school can be reopened. Several people are suggested throughout these letters — they all are denied for various reasons."I'm putting myself in the shoes of these Black people in New Brunswick in the early 1900s," he said.