Nova Scotia Archives
African Nova Scotians in the Age of Slavery and Abolition
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''A view of Halifax from the topmasthead''
Date: published 25 January 1750
Engraver and publisher: T. Jeffreys
Reference: Nova Scotia Archives T. Jeffreys, Untitled Map of Halifax (London, 1750)
Letter from Governor Cornwallis about Captain Bloss and his slaves
Date: 22 September 1750
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 35 number 25 (microfilm 15231)
"A list of settlers victual'd at this place [Halifax] between the eighteenth day of May & fourth day of June 1750..."
Date: 28 November 1750
Reference: Isaac Deschamps Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 volume 258 number 12 (microfilm 14912)
Sale of a woman (age 35), two boys (ages 12 and 13), two male teenagers (ages 18), and a man (age 30)
Date: 30 May 1752
Reference: Nova Scotia Archives Halifax Gazette 30 May 1752 page 2 (microfilm 8152)
Letter of Malachy Salter to his wife about a slave
Date: 2 September 1759
Reference: Nova Scotia Archives MG 100 volume 217 number 27f (microfilm 9667)
"A list of proprietors of the township of Liverpool with their number in family respectively"
Date: [ca. 1764]
Reference: Commissioner of Crown Lands Nova Scotia Archives RG 20 series C volume 43 number 1
"A general return of the several townships in the province of Nova Scotia the first day of January 1767"
Date: 16 December 1767
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 443 number 1 (microfilm 15479)
Deed from Barbary (Barbara) Cuffy to Robert Stevenson, Liverpool
Date: 7 March 1769
Reference: Nova Scotia Archives Queens County deed registers volume 1 page 258 (microfilm 18606)
Entry about the marriage of Deborah Cuffy and John Carroll, Liverpool from Simeon Perkins's diary, vol. 1 (typed transcript)
Date: 4 May 1772
Reference: Simeon Perkins Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 volume 749
Fugitive slave advertisement
Date: 1 September 1772
Reference: Nova Scotia Archives Nova Scotia Gazette and Weekly Chronicle 01 September 1772 page 3 (microfilm 8155)
Boy for sale
Date: 28 March 1775
Reference: Nova Scotia Archives Nova Scotia Gazette and Weekly Chronicle 28 March 1775 page 3 (microfilm 8153)
Bill of sale for slave named 'Dinah'
Date: 19 November 1776
Reference: Nova Scotia Archives MG 100 volume 113 number 51 (microfilm 15169)
Sale of slave 'Mintur' by Joseph Northup to John Palmer in Windsor
Date: 1779
Reference: Nova Scotia Archives MG 100 volume 14 number 113 (microfilm 794)
Watson alias Phillis v. Proud (judgement)
Date: 1779
Reference: Supreme Court of Nova Scotia — Halifax County judgement books Nova Scotia Archives RG 39 J Halifax County volume 6 page 103
Bill of sale for slave 'Abram', recorded at the Colchester County Registry of Deeds
Date: 29 July 1779
Reference: Nova Scotia Archives Colchester County register of deeds volume 1 page 468 (microfilm 17438)