Enslaved people who joined Dunmore’s Ethiopian Regiment feared deportation to England over freedom

Evidence

I hope I ain’t one of those who make it. I can’t sail over those waters again. That’s what they tell us gwine happen. Those of us who fight for the Crown and live to tell about it will be put on a boat and shipped off to England—whether we be triumphant or defeated. Crossing that same dreadful ocean that split us from our first families, with no promise that this trip will bring us anything different from what we got before except having hearts broke twice instead of once. Who to say Dunmore is a man of his word? Never safe to trust toubab. — Nikole Hannah-Jones et al., The 1619 Project, 420

Categorization

• QUESTION: Whether Dunmore actually shipped Black Loyalists to England, and how many — worth checking the historical record on Dunmore’s promises vs. practice.
• ADDENDUM: Connects to ‘On Sacrifice: The Real Kind, with Corpses’ — enslaved recruits risking everything on a deliverer’s word is a parallel of faith in a promised deliverance.