Quest for Freedom
![Painting of Black woman with a ship in her windswept hair.](https://www.communitystories.ca/v2/black-settlers-york-sunbury_colons-noirs/wp-content/uploads/sites/158/2022/03/Painting-Woman-ship-in-hair..jpg)
Courtesy of Fredericton Region Museum, 2020.
It was Sunday May 27, 1783, and the Spring Fleet of fifty-sail included ships destined for the River St John; on board were an estimated 130 Black Loyalists, whose names were recorded in the Book of Negroes.