Stephen Blucke

Stephen Blucke

Stephen Blucke, a Black Loyalist, in the service of the British Army, in the American Revolutionary War, was a commanding officer, of the British, Black Loyalist provincial unit, the Black Company of Pioneers and the second commander, of the Black Loyalist, guerrilla, associators group, the Black Brigade, was also, a Nova Scotia Black Loyalist, settlements colonizer, and a school teacher
Born c. 1752
Barbados (British Royal Colony), British West Indies, British Empire
Died c. 1795 (aged 43)
British Canada, British North America, British Empire?
Cause of death unknown
Occupation soldier, associator, colonizer, teacher
Years active 1777-1783
Title Colonel
Spouse(s) Margaret Coventry

Military career

Allegiance  Kingdom of Great Britain
Service/branch  British Army
Years of service 1775–1783
Rank Colonel (honorary rank)
Commands held Black Company of Pioneers (1777-1780) and Black Brigade (1780-1783)
Battles/wars

American Revolutionary War

Stephen Blucke (born c. 1752) was a Black Loyalist, in the American Revolutionary War, and one the commanding officer, of the British Loyalist provincial unit, the Black Company of Pioneers.[1]The "Black Pioneers" were a Black Loyalist company, of soldiers, who worked labor detail, for the British Army.

After the death of Black Loyalist, guerrilla leader, Colonel Tye, in 1780, Stephen Blucke, was given the honorary rank of "Colonel" and took command, of another Black Loyalist unit, a group of military associators, known as the infamous "Black Brigade", until the end of the war.[2]

Like, many exiled, Black Loyalists, he came to the Maritimes, in British Canada, after the war and settled in Birchtown, Nova Scotia, in 1783[3] and became a teacher and taught at one of the Bray Schools.[4] He has been referred to as "the true founder of the Afro-Nova Scotian community".[5]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Brown, Wallace (1969). The good Americans: the loyalists in the American Revolution. William Morrow and Company. p. 203.
  2. ↑ Jonathan D. Sutherland, African Americans at War, ABC-CLIO, 2003, pp. 420-421, accessed 4 May 2010
  3. ↑ Clarkson, John (1971). Clarkson's mission to America 1791-1792. Public Archives of Nova Scotia. p. 191.
  4. ↑ Loyalists and Layabouts, p. 219, note 68
  5. ↑ Barry Cahill. Stephen Blucke: The Perils of Being a "White Negro" in Loyalist Nova Scotia. Nova Scotia Historical Review. 1999. No.1, p. 129

External links

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 11/19/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.