Nova Scotia Archives

African Nova Scotians in the Age of Slavery and Abolition


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"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


"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)


"Bedford Basin near Halifax (Nova Scotia)"

Date: 1835

Artist: Robert Petley

Credit: Library and Archives Canada

Reference National Archives of Canada C-115424


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)


"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)


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


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


Map detail showing Preston

Date: [1865]

Publisher: A.F. Church & Co.

Reference: Nova Scotia Archives Topographical Township Map of Halifax County, Nova Scotia


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

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


Looking up George Street, Halifax, on market day

Date: [ca. 1879]

Photographer: Notman Studio

Reference: Notman Studio  Nova Scotia Archives accession number 1983-310/44222


Group with ox cart, Preston, N.S.

Date: [ca. 1886]

Photographer: attributed to Frances Jones Bannerman

Reference: Frances Jones Bannerman  Nova Scotia Archives accession number 1996-156/12


"Eddie Beals"

Date: [ca. 1890]

Photographer: George H. Craig

Credit: Dartmouth Heritage Museum

Reference George H. Craig Dartmouth Heritage Museum image number A8098; accession number 94.55.16


"Saul Bauld, water carrier"

Date: [ca. 1890]

Photographer: George H. Craig

Credit: Dartmouth Heritage Museum

Reference George H. Craig Dartmouth Heritage Museum image number 8089; accession number 94.55.7


Selling baskets on market day, Halifax

Date: [ca. 1890]

Photographer: George H. Craig

Credit: Dartmouth Heritage Museum

Reference George H. Craig Dartmouth Heritage Museum image number A8289; accession number 94.55.207


Outdoor baptism, 1st Lake (Lake Banook), Dartmouth

Date: [1892]

Photographer: George H. Craig

Credit: Black Cultural Centre

Reference Black Cultural Centre


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