Nova Scotia Archives

African Nova Scotians in the Age of Slavery and Abolition

A Documentary Study of The Establishment of Negroes in Nova Scotia between The War of 1812 and the Winning of Responsible Government

A PDF copy of this publication is available.

All 29 appendices are available online. They are transcripts of original documents relating to the African Nova Scotians settlement of Nova Scotia after the War of 1812. Links are made between these transcripts and original documents available within the site. All names are also searchable.

Date: Publication No. 8, Halifax, N.S., The Public Archives of Nova Scotia, 1948

Author: Prepared by C.B. Fergusson, Assistant Archivist under the direction of D.C. Harvey, Archivist

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