Nova Scotia Archives
African Nova Scotians in the Age of Slavery and Abolition
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Runaway slave advertisement for 'James', property of Abel Michener of Falmouth
Date: 22 May 1781
Reference: Nova Scotia Archives Nova Scotia Gazette 22 May 1781 page 3 (microfilm 8159)
Bill of sale for slave 'Sambo', recorded at the Pictou County Registry of Deeds
Date: 19 August 1786
Reference: Nova Scotia Archives Pictou County register of deeds volume 1A page 223 (microfilm 18475)
"Slave for sale"
Date: 1945
Artist: Robert Chambers
Reference: Nova Scotia Archives William C. Borrett, Down East (Halifax, N.S., 1945), page 81 (Nova Scotia Archives Library F92 /B64 /D75)
David George's lease and passports, 1779-1781
Date: Recorded in orderly book at Halifax, late 1782 or early 1783
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 170 pages 332-3 (microfilm 15282)
Certificates for Thomas Williams and his wife as "freeborn Blacks", 1 July 1781
Date: Recorded in orderly book at Halifax, late 1782 or early 1783
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 170 page 333 (microfilm 15282)
Certificate of Ned, his wife and family as "free Negroes", 19 November 1779; passport of Ned, his wife and children, 14 October 1782
Date: Recorded in orderly book at Halifax, 13 March 1783
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 170 page 336 (microfilm 15282)
Passport of Phillis Thomas, a "free Black woman", 12 October 1782
Date: Recorded in orderly book at Halifax, 14 March 1783
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 170 page 338 (microfilm 15282)
Certificate of Michael Thomas as a "free Negro together with his wife and children", 24 July 1780
Date: Recorded in orderly book at Halifax, 14 March 1783
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 170 page 338 (microfilm 15282)
Passport for Cato Ramsay to emigrate to Nova Scotia
Date: 21 April 1783
Reference: Gideon White family fonds Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 volume 948 number 196 (microfilm 14960)
Passport and certificate of John Williams, 19 April 1783
Date: Recorded in orderly book at Halifax, June or July 1783
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 170 page 341 (microfilm 15282)
"Book of Negroes"
Date: [after 31 July 1783]
Credit: The National Archives, Kew (PRO)
Reference Sir Guy Carleton Papers no. 10427 The National Archives, Kew PRO 30/55/100 (microfilm 10149)
Certificate of manumission for 'James', a four month old "mulatto child"
Date: Recorded in orderly book at Halifax, October or November 1783
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 170 page 350 (microfilm 15282)
Runaway slave advertisement
Date: 9 December 1783
Reference: Nova Scotia Archives Nova Scotia Gazette and Weekly Chronicle 09 December 1783 page 4 (microfilm 8159)
"Fortune — A Free Negro"
Date: 30 July 1784
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 376 pages 52-3 (microfilm 15437)
Rose Fortune (ca. 1774-1864)
Date: [1830s?]
Artist: unknown
Reference: Nova Scotia Archives Documentary Art Collection: accession number 1979-147/56