The Black Loyalist Heritage Centre in Birchtown, N.S., is preserving a piece of Canadian history with a new exhibit recreating a historic Black school.
Andrea Davis, the centre’s executive director, says Black Loyalists escaped American slavery for freedom in Nova Scotia in the 1780s, but were barred from many public spaces.
“I get really emotional hearing the stories of how the Black Loyalists didn’t belong in the churches or the workplaces or in the schools,” Davis says. “When I walk into the centre, I can almost feel something that tells me I have to be able to continue the work that we
