Nova Scotia Archives
African Nova Scotians in the Age of Slavery and Abolition
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"A New Map of Nova Scotia, compiled...for the Historical & Statistical Account of Nova Scotia"
Date: 1829
Publisher: [Joseph Howe?]
Reference: Nova Scotia Archives Map Collection
Theme: Black Refugees, 1813-1834
Memorial of George Winder of New Road (Cherry Brook)
Date: 9 November 1829
Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly — Assembly petitions series Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 series P volume 57 number 82 (microfilm 9941)
Theme: Black Refugees, 1813-1834
"Province House, Hollis Street, Halifax"
Date: published by Colburn & Bentley, London 1830
Artist: J. Clark
Reference: Nova Scotia Archives William Moorsom, Letters From Nova Scotia: Comprising Sketches of a Young Country (London, 1830), page 10 opposite (F100 / M78) (microfilm 3870)
Theme: Black Refugees, 1813-1834
"A Black Article" (introductory paragraph)
Date: 27 June 1832
Reference: Nova Scotia Archives Novascotian 27 June 1832 page 1 (microfilm 8069)
Theme: Black Refugees, 1813-1834
Petition from Richard Preston and others concerning the African Baptist Church
Date: 25 February 1833
Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly — Assembly petitions series Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 series P volume 42 number 51 (microfilm 9782)
Theme: Black Refugees, 1813-1834
"Return of the distribution of twenty-five pounds granted by the...House of Assembly for relief of poor coloured people at Preston"
Date: 16 March 1833
Reference: Nova Scotia Archives MG 15 volume 9 number 56 (microfilm 15108)
Theme: Black Refugees, 1813-1834
Petition of Richard Preston for money to pay for a teacher
Date: 15 February 1834
Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly — Assembly petitions series Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 series P volume 72 number 44 (microfilm 9957)
Theme: Black Refugees, 1813-1834
"City clergy: Rev'd Mr Preston"
Date: [ca. 1850]
Artist: Dr. J.B. Gilpin
Credit: History Collection, Nova Scotia Museum
Reference Nova Scotia Museum P149.29
Theme: Black Refugees, 1813-1834
"An act to prevent the clandestine landing of liberated slaves..."
Date: 16 April 1834
Reference: Nova Scotia Archives Statutes of Nova Scotia 1834 c. 68 (J104 / H6 1834)
Theme: Black Refugees, 1813-1834
"Bedford Basin near Halifax (Nova Scotia)"
Date: 1835
Artist: Robert Petley
Credit: Library and Archives Canada
Reference National Archives of Canada C-115424
Theme: Black Refugees, 1813-1834
Memorial of William McLaughlin of Preston
Date: 14 February 1836
Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly — Assembly petitions series Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 series P volume 52 number 45 (microfilm 9798)
Theme: Black Refugees, 1813-1834
"Return of schools in the County of Digby for the year ended the 30th Nov. 1838"
Date: 1838
Reference: Nova Scotia Archives RG 14 volume 12 number 73 (1838) (microfilm 21875)
Theme: Black Refugees, 1813-1834
Untitled portrait of a black youth (Nova Scotia)
Date: [between 1840 and 1846]
Artist: Mary McKie
Credit: Library and Archives Canada
Reference National Archives of Canada accession number 1990-207-94; C-009564 Lady Falkland album
Theme: Black Refugees, 1813-1834
Untitled portrait of a black man (Nova Scotia)
Date: [ca. 1845]
Artist: attributed to Lady Falkland
Credit: Library and Archives Canada
Reference National Archives of Canada accession number 1990-207-88; C-104919 Lady Falkland album
Theme: Black Refugees, 1813-1834
Map detail showing Preston
Date: [1865]
Publisher: A.F. Church & Co.
Reference: Nova Scotia Archives Topographical Township Map of Halifax County, Nova Scotia
Theme: Black Refugees, 1813-1834