Gary Nash
In the article The Forgotten Experience, Gary Nash discusses the adventures in which the blacks and reds fought for the natural rights. Thomas Peters and Thayendanegea started their own revolutions to prove to the white people that they were just as equal and deserved the same treatment and natural rights despite their race.
Thomas Peters, only being a slave, successfully accomplished his plan for freedom along with other ex-slaves and refugees from London who desperately wanted freedom from the cruel treatment from their masters and the British. To put life to this plan, he first had to escape many times from his masters and the plantations that he was enslaved in. He received many beating and brandings but that didn’t stop him from this revolt for the natural rights he deserved. When Peters was sold to a plantation in Wilmington, North Carolina, he decided that it was his last chance of freedom and escaped to become a member in the British Regiment of Black Guides and Pioneers to become free and help fight for the British. In the escape into the Regiment, he was emancipated from his master. After the war they were evacuated to Nova Scotia by the British. The British promised them land, tools and rations for three years to those who fought along with them but their promise weren’t exactly lived up to. They were segregated into villages and given small amounts of food along with lands that were unable to grow crops on. The white Nova Scotia’s were just as unwilling to share their land as the American’s were. Eventually they burned and attacked their villages. Fed up with everything, Peters demanded to put the case of black Nova Scotians before the British Government. He met with Granville Sharp, Thomas Clarkson and William Wilburforce to establishing a colony in Africa for ex-slaves to live. Their plan was fulfilled and thousands of blacks were sailed over to the colony in which they called Sierra Leone. Peter’s had earned this place in history, for he did what
Thomas Peters, only being a slave, successfully accomplished his plan for freedom along with other ex-slaves and refugees from London who desperately wanted freedom from the cruel treatment from their masters and the British. To put life to this plan, he first had to escape many times from his masters and the plantations that he was enslaved in. He received many beating and brandings but that didn’t stop him from this revolt for the natural rights he deserved. When Peters was sold to a plantation in Wilmington, North Carolina, he decided that it was his last chance of freedom and escaped to become a member in the British Regiment of Black Guides and Pioneers to become free and help fight for the British. In the escape into the Regiment, he was emancipated from his master. After the war they were evacuated to Nova Scotia by the British. The British promised them land, tools and rations for three years to those who fought along with them but their promise weren’t exactly lived up to. They were segregated into villages and given small amounts of food along with lands that were unable to grow crops on. The white Nova Scotia’s were just as unwilling to share their land as the American’s were. Eventually they burned and attacked their villages. Fed up with everything, Peters demanded to put the case of black Nova Scotians before the British Government. He met with Granville Sharp, Thomas Clarkson and William Wilburforce to establishing a colony in Africa for ex-slaves to live. Their plan was fulfilled and thousands of blacks were sailed over to the colony in which they called Sierra Leone. Peter’s had earned this place in history, for he did what