Boston King

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Boston King, (c. 1760 – 1802), was an African American missionary and Black Loyalist during the Revolutionary War. King, who had been born a [[Slavery in the United States |slave]] in South Carolina, joined the British after the signing of the Declaration of Independence. King was one of the 3000 black Americans who escaped slavery by being transported by the British to Nova Scotia. King eventually settled in Birchtown and worked a number of odd jobs, even moving back to the United States to work in New Jersey for a short period of time.

King was one the 1,192 former slaves who decided to emigrate to the colony of Province of Freedom where they established their own settlement, Freetown, Sierra Leone. King and his second wife died while serving as missionaries to the Sherbro people. King was survived by two sons and a daughter according to the 1802 census of Sierra Leone.

King was also the author of the African American slave narrative Memoirs of the life of Boston King, written in 1798.