Relationship With Black Nova Scotians and Black Americans
Some of the settlers bore children during their nine year sojourn in Nova Scotia]; these children were Black Nova Scotians but retained many cultural habits similar to Black Americans. The descendants of the Nova Scotian settlers (who are the Sierra Leone Creole people) are the related to both Black Nova Scotians and Black Americans.
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