African Nova Scotians in the Age of Slavery and Abolition

Levin Winder, among the first refugees who settled in Preston, asks the government for 150 acres of land. Winder's petition declares a common sentiment among the refugees: the land was poor and their farms too small.

Date: 13 March 1821

Reference: Commissioner of Crown Lands  Nova Scotia Archives  RG 20 series A volume 85 (1821) (microfilm 15733)