St. Mary’s council recognizes Black Loyalist exodus of 1792

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ST. MARY’S – Council for the Municipality of the District of St. Mary’s is recognizing an important, though often overlooked, moment in the province’s history: The exodus of Black loyalists from Nova Scotia to Sierra Leone in 1792. In a statement posted to its Facebook page, the municipality is marking “the 230th anniversary of a remarkable mass departure of people that can claim not only to be the first, but the largest single mass departure of African descendants returning to the continent of