UNESCO recognizes Maritime historical groups for Black Loyalist archive
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UNESCO recognized several Maritime historical groups including the executive director of the Black Loyalist Heritage Centre for their work on the Black Loyalist archive.
Detailed ledgers, business receipts and church records from Black Loyalists in the 1780s and onward are more than just rich historical texts to Andrea Davis.
“This is a part of my history… it means so much to us as a community,” she said in an interview Saturday.
Davis is an eighth generation descendant of Black people who left the United States for Nova Scotia at the end of the American Revolution, siding with the British. The Black Loyalists were offered land, protection and freedom, but they were not given the rations, assistance or fertile land they were promised.
“My ancestors, they are a group of people that were not meant to survive, but they did. And so to be here to represent the Black Loyalists and my ancestors is extremely rewarding,” she said.
Davis, the executive director of the Black Loyalist Heritage Centre in Shelburne, N.S., was among those recognized Saturday by the Canadian branch of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, otherwise known as UNESCO.
The Nova Scotia Archives, Black Loyalist Heritage Centre, Shelburne County Museum and Provincial Archives of New Brunswick partnered to produce an archival collection called “Black Loyalists in Canada: Autonomy, Advocacy, Community, Legacy.” The collection was added to UNESCO’s Canada Memory of the World Register, which recognizes documentary heritage of national significance.
Davis said the documents, some of which were on display at the Nova Scotia Archives in Halifax on Saturday, provide detail into the rich lives of the Black Loyalists who settled in Shelburne, where she lives today.
The documents “show their intelligence… show me the strength and resilience that was always there… it’s so emotional and so compelling for me as an eighth generation to have these texts on hand and share it with the next generations after me,” she said.
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