The #1792 Project is an ongoing project bringing together students and community in education. All communities, urban and rural, continue to experience the consequences of the history of racism in the province, and together we can learn and do better.
#1792 Project celebrates the history of the largest single return of the people of African Descent to the continent of African in 1792. 1, 196 Black Loyalists left Halifax Harbour on 15 ships to Sierra Leone on January 15 and arrived in Freetown on March 11.
The ships are: The Betsey, The Mary, The Eleanor, The Felicity, The Morning Star, The Venus, The Sierra Leone, The Beaver, The Brothers, The Prince William Fleury, The Prince William, The Catherine, The Lucretia, The Somerset and The Parr. Just as the Bluenose and the Titanic, their names should be known by every Nova Scotian.
