Enslaved people in Virginia were promised freedom if they remained loyal to the British crown during the Revolutionary War. Where did they go, and what became of them? Cardinal News 250 host Dutchie Jessee talks with Andrea Davis and Kelley Bruce (both descendants of Black Loyalists) from the Black Loyalist Heritage Center in Canada.
See also our story on those Black Loyalists from Virginia who went to Nova Scotia and the Virginia-born singer who wrote a song about the Loyalists.
Other Cardinal 250 podcasts:
- Podcast with award-winning historian Woody Holton about “the forgotten founders.”
- Retired Virginia Commonwealth University journalism professor Jeff South about the role of the press in Colonial Virginia.
- South also talks about Clementina Rind, the first woman to publish a newspaper in Virginia.
- Cheryl Wilson, executive director of the Virginia American Revolution 250 Commission.
