The Revolutionary Black Loyalists! Live with Tressie McMillan Cottom

Our Ancestors Were Messy

Thousands of our ancestors escaped slavery during the American Revolution, fought for the British on the promise of freedom, and left an outsized legacy in the US, Canada, and beyond. Starring writer, sociologist, and MacArthur Fellow Tressie McMillian Cottom taped live on Juneteenth at the Institute for Contemporary Art at VCU in Richmond, VA. 

SELECT SOURCES

  1. The Black Loyalists of the American Revolution
  2. Enslaved by George Washington, This Man Escaped to Freedom-and Joined the British Army
  3. Black Loyalists Exodus to Nova Scotia
  4. An Account of the Life of Mr. David George from SLA given by himself
  5. George Liele
  6. Thomas Peters
  7. The Black Loyalist Heritage Center
 
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Thousands of our ancestors escaped slavery during the American Revolution, fought for the British on the promise of freedom, and left an outsized legacy in the US, Canada, and beyond. Starring writer, sociologist, and MacArthur Fellow Tressie McMillian Cottom taped live on Juneteenth at the Institute for Contemporary Art at VCU in Richmond, VA. 

SELECT SOURCES

  1. The Black Loyalists of the American Revolution
  2. Enslaved by George Washington, This Man Escaped to Freedom-and Joined the British Army
  3. Black Loyalists Exodus to Nova Scotia
  4. An Account of the Life of Mr. David George from SLA given by himself
  5. George Liele
  6. Thomas Peters
  7. The Black Loyalist Heritage Center
 
2026-07-08 98 min
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