African-American diaspora
The African-American diaspora refers to communities of people of African descent who previously lived in the United States.
[3] Today, many African Americans, especially women, are leaving the U.S. for an easier life in places like South Africa, Mexico, and the Caribbean.
[5] Newly freed African Americans who fought for either side would end up living as freedmen in Nova Scotia Canada, in England, or in British Sierra Leone.
Throughout the rest of the 19th and into the 20th century African Americans would flee the harsh realities of the South such as lynching and other racism and would mainly relocate to Canada.
[8] During the 20th century, African Americans continued to face racism and discrimination being denied work in higher-paying jobs and would be severely restricted through Jim Crow laws.
[10] During this time period, Canada would abolish its immigration policies that discriminated against African Americans and it would prompt more African-American communities to be introduced.
Because the cost of living outside the U.S. is greatly lower it can allow more people to migrate permanently or temporally out of the U.S.[4] Many freed slaves were discontent with where they were resettled in Canada after the Revolutionary War and were eager to return to their homeland.
In 1792, a second attempt at settlement was made when 1,100 freed slaves established Freetown with support from British abolitionist Thomas Clarkson.
[17] African Americans who settled in Canada before Confederation include three major waves: Other, smaller waves of African-American settlement occurred in Western Canada in the 19th and early 20th centuries, with African Americans from California taking up an allowance from the Colony of Vancouver Island to settle on the island in the 1860s, as well as settlements by African Americans from Oklahoma and Texas in Amber Valley, Campsie, Junkins (now Wildwood) and Keystone (now Breton) in Alberta, as well as a former community in the Rural Municipality of Eldon, north of Maidstone, Saskatchewan.
[18] In the 1780s with the end of the American Revolutionary War, hundreds of black loyalists, especially soldiers, from America were resettled in London.
