Upper Big Tracadie

Upper Big Tracadie is a small community in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, located in Antigonish County.

Led by Thomas Brownspriggs, Black Nova Scotians who had settled at Chedabucto Bay behind the present-day village of Guysborough migrated to Tracadie (1787).

His French protestant slave owner was Peter Giraud of King Street, Charlestown, South Carolina, who was a poor stocking weaver.

A year after the British occupied Charlestown, they arrest slaver Girard and freed Gero (1781).

Gero made his way to Nova Scotia and was married and baptized at the Christ Church in Guysborough in 1786.

During the American Revolution, in 1780 the British officer Major General Leslie occupied John Lining's residence in Hillsborough, and Hannah successfully escaped with her mother to New York.

She was given land nearby Black Loyalist settlement Tracadie, Nova Scotia but never moved there.

[4] The education in the Black community was initially provided by the protestant Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, a Church of England missionary organization active in the British Atlantic world in the 18th and 19th centuries.