Another Column By Tylissa Roy, In Sierra Leone 1792 #2

Hello again, newsprint readers. Here I am in Sierra Leone. You might be wondering what I, a black Loyalist, am doing in Sierra Leone. Well, it all started when Thomas Peters started petitioning against the conditions that Black Loyalists are facing in Nova Scotia.  He traveled around to get his petition noticed, and eventually it was, by the Sierra Leone Company. The Sierra Leone Company was run by people who campaigned to end slavery and they were trying to establish a settlement for free former slaves in, obviously, Sierra Leone.  We Black Loyalists had very little other options. We could continue to attempt living on the tiny rocky land that we had in Nova Scotia, we could join the British Army, or we could get  land and free transportation to Sierra Leone. Seriously. Rocks, Army or  LAND? Let me just repeat this:LAND! AND FREE TRANSPORTATION! I hope you are following me, and the word FREE is screaming at you the same way it did to other Black Loyalists. Mr. Peters had convinced 1100 Black Loyalists to go to Sierra Leone in January, 1792. 1100. That is a big number. Considering the fact that there were 3000 Black Loyalists in Nova Scotia. That number, 1100, is over a third of our whole Black Loyalist POPULATION (in Nova Scotia).  So we traveled, FREE, to Sierra Leone. If you have not already figured this out, my family and I also took the FREE offer to Sierra Leone.  I would hope that you have already figured that out though. Anyways, we were............................
Sorry, you will have to wait until next week's paper comes out to find out what happens. Well, you all have the textbook, so you probably know what happens... just pretend you don't. Let the anticipation build....