French privateers often included black men as crew, for whom the revolution meant the promise of freedom from enslavement. Nova Scotian privateers such as the Charles Mary Wentworth also included freed black men within the crew.
numéro de référence: Nova Scotia Archives Newspapers: Royal Gazette 3 November 1795 page 3
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