African Nova Scotians in the Age of Slavery and Abolition

The Sierra Leone Company, a British anti-slavery organization, offered free African Nova Scotians the opportunity to settle in Sierra Leone, a West African colony of freed slaves. Conditions in Nova Scotia were so difficult that about one-third decided to go to Sierra Leone.

Date: 2 August 1791

Reference: Commissioner of Public Records  Nova Scotia Archives  RG 1 volume 419 number 1 (microfilm 15460)