In Popular Culture
- The saga of the Black Loyalists inspired Lawrence Hill's 2007 novel The Book of Negroes (published as Someone Knows My Name in the United States). It won the 2008 Commonwealth Award for Fiction.
- M.T. Anderson's 2008 young-adult novel The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves details the life of young Octavian Nothing, who joins Lord Dunmore's Royal Ethiopians.
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