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Black Loyalist evacuation register
The Book of Negroes records approximately three thousand Black people evacuated from New York in 1783 and is a key source for family-level migration research.
Not publication-ready.
- Historical place
- New York to British destinations including Nova Scotia
- Present-day context
- New York to British destinations including Nova Scotia — navigation aid, not historical jurisdiction
- Peoples named in this record
- Black Loyalists
- Review state
- source supported draft — source-supported draft is not independent verification
- Catalogue updated
- 2026-10-11
- French text
- Translation pending; English research text shown.
Map context
No territorial polygon or coordinate is asserted in v1. Modern location labels are orientation aids, not historical boundaries.
No dated political snapshot is available for this event. No historical boundary is inferred.
Source evidence
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Book of Negroes, 1783
Library and Archives Canada · institutional history · Review: search excerpt
Recorded retrieval date: 2026-10-11. This date does not prove a complete document was reviewed.
Institutional interpretation is not automatically independent corroboration. Consult nation-authored histories and underlying records before editorial approval.