 They were promised freedom by the Crown if they joined British lines, and some 3,000 African Americans were resettled in Nova Scotia after the war, where they were known as Black Loyalists.There was also the forced migration of the Jamaican Maroons in 1796, although a third of the Loyalists and nearly all of the Maroons left to found Freetown in Sierra Leone four years later.In this period, educational opportunities began to develop with the establishment of Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts (Bray Schools) in Nova Scotia.