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Why did Alexander Hewat use Black labour on his plantation?
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Alexander Hewat used Black labour on his plantation because he believed that Black people were better workers than White people. Hewat's own brother Andrew, used Black labour on his plantation, and after the Revolution at least one followed him into exile, first to Nova Scotia, and then back to Roxburgh. Indeed, many Black Loyalists fought against the revolution, and left with White Loyalists as a result.