Nova Scotia Archives
Looking Back, Moving Forward: Documenting the Heritage of African Nova Scotians
Newspaper advertisement for sale of a woman (age 35), two boys (ages 12 and 13), two male teenagers (ages 18), and a man (age 30) in Halifax
Advertisement from the Halifax Gazette illustrates Nova Scotia’s part in the Atlantic coastal slave trade. The enslaved people offered for sale had just been imported from the West Indies by Halifax merchant Joshua Mauger.
Date: 30 May 1752
Reference: Nova Scotia Archives Halifax Gazette 30 May 1752 page 2 (microfilm 8152)