Thomas Peters
Politician, Military Person
1738 – 1792
Who was Thomas Peters?
Thomas Peters was one of the Black Loyalists Founding Fathers of Sierra Leone. Peters, along with David George, Moses Wilkinson, Cato Perkins, and Joseph Leonard, were influential blacks who recruited African settlers in Nova Scotia for colonization of Sierra Leone. Peters himself was a former African-American slave who fled North Carolina with the British during the American Revolutionary War and later ended up as a leader in Freetown. Thomas Peters has been called the first African-American hero. Peters, like Elijah Johnson and Joseph Jenkins Roberts of Liberia, is considered the African-American founding father of a nation.
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- Born
- Jun 25, 1738
Africa - Ethnicity
- African American
- Sierra Leone Creole people
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Died
- Jun 25, 1792
Freetown
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on July 23, 2013
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