Chapter 26: Africa and the atlantic World: Cool story: Thomas Peters crossed atlantic 4 times, was from west Africa, and was first captured and sold to French to Louisiana, but tried to escape so he was sold to Scottish. As English prepare to rebel, slaves looked for personal freedom and joined the Black Pioneers who fought for British rule, but when colonists won he fled to Nova scotia, but Peters was seen as a spokesman for black families and he went to London and back and then to Sierra Leone with blacks to settle there. AFRICAN POLITICS AND SOCIETY IN EARLY MODERN TIMES