The Coloured Corps (also known as Runchey’s Company of Coloured Men, or Black Corps) was a militia company of Black men raised during the War of 1812. Created in Upper Canada, where enslavement had been limited in 1793, the corps was composed of free and enslaved Black men. Many were veterans of the American Revolution,Continue reading “THE COLOURED CORPS: BLACK CANADIANS AND THE WAR OF 1812”
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