Nova Scotia Archives

African Nova Scotians in the Age of Slavery and Abolition


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Edward 'Ned' Beals, Preston

Date: [ca. 1890]

Photographer: George H. Craig

Credit: Dartmouth Heritage Museum

Reference George H. Craig Photograph Collection, 1885 - 1894 Dartmouth Heritage Museum image number A562; accession number 92.7.189


''School at Five Mile Plains where Miss DeWolf taught around 1912''

Date: [ca. 1912]

Photographer: Miss DeWolf?

Reference: Nova Scotia Archives L. DeW. Rathbun, First Freed Slaves at Five Mile Plains and Vicinity (typescript, 1950), ill. number 4 (GN / R18)


''James Croxen and some members of his family''

Date: [ca. 1912]

Photographer: unknown

Reference: Nova Scotia Archives L. DeW. Rathbun, First Freed Slaves at Five Mile Plains and Vicinity (typescript, 1950), ill. number 1 (GN / R18)


''Rita Sampson, 7th generation of Hoping Bowen and Samuel Johnson''

Date: [ca. 1950]

Photographer: unknown

Reference: Nova Scotia Archives L. DeW. Rathbun, First Freed Slaves at Five Mile Plains and Vicinity (typescript, 1950), ill. number 7 (GN / R18)


''Mary David born August 9, 1866, great-grandaughter of Samuel Johnson, granddaughter of Pompey Johnson and daughter of Ellen Clark, taken at Five Mile Plains, October 15, 1951''

Date: 1951

Photographer: unknown

Reference: Nova Scotia Archives L. DeW. Rathbun, First Freed Slaves at Five Mile Plains and Vicinity (typescript, 1950), ill. number 8 (GN /R18)


Thomas Beals family of North Preston

Date: [1930s]

Photographer: Clara Dennis

Reference: Clara Dennis  Nova Scotia Archives accession number 1983-468/106


''John Farmer, descendent of Jupiter the slave, Birchtown, Shelburne County''

Date: [early 1930s]

Photographer: Clara Dennis

Reference: Clara Dennis  Nova Scotia Archives accession number 1983-468/33


Houses belonging to the Colley family, on the site of Governor's Farm, Preston

Date: 2 October 1934

Photographer: Gauvin & Gentzel

Reference: Nova Scotia Archives Photo Collection: Places: Preston


Scene at North Preston, showing the Baptist church

Date: 2 October 1934

Photographer: Gauvin & Gentzel

Reference: Nova Scotia Archives Photo Collection: Places: Preston


House at North Preston, with group of children in the foreground

Date: 2 October 1934

Photographer: Gauvin & Gentzel

Reference: Nova Scotia Archives Photo Collection: Places: Preston


Sign from the Stag Inn, Preston

Date: [1840s or 1850s]

Credit: History Collection, Nova Scotia Museum

Reference Nova Scotia Museum accession number 34-211


House at Preston, formerly the Stag Inn

Date: 2 October 1934

Photographer: Gauvin & Gentzel

Reference: Nova Scotia Archives Photo Collection: Places: Preston


African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church (newspaper clipping)

Date: 12 September 1938

Reference: Nova Scotia Archives "Make Appeal In Behalf Of Church", Halifax Mail 12 September 1938 p.2 (microfilm 7288)


''Winter on Hollis Steet, Halifax, N.S., Christmas trees''

Date: [ca. 1947]

Photographer: Robert Norwood

Reference: Robert Norwood  Nova Scotia Archives accession number 1987-480/263


William Riley, with his daughter Rose standing behind him in the doorway, Cherry Brook

Date: 1948

Photographer: attributed to Helen Creighton

Reference: Helen Creighton  Nova Scotia Archives accession number 1987-178/14-124


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