Nova Scotia Archives
African Nova Scotians in the Age of Slavery and Abolition
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"Return of the disbanded troops and Loyalists settling in the Province of Nova Scotia, mustered in the summer 1784" in "A general description of the Province of Nova Scotia...by Lieutenant Colonel [Robert] Morse, Chief Engineer in America"
Date: [after July 1784]
Credit: By Permission of The British Library
Reference The British Library King's Mss. 208 folio 23
Petition on behalf of the Black Pioneers
Date: 20 (?) August 1784
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 359 number 65 (microfilm 15428)
"Return of Negroes and their families mustered in Annapolis County between the 28th day of May and the 30th day of June 1784"
Date: 5 September 1784
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 376 pages 73-7 (microfilm 15437)
Record of Col. Edward Cole's ownership of five slaves, Parrsboro
Date: 1786
Credit: Esther Clark Wright Archives, Acadia University
Reference Parrsboro Township Book Esther Clark Wright Archives, Acadia University accession number 1900.031
Baptismal records for ten "Blacks of Birchtown," christened on the same day
Date: 10 September 1786
Reference: Nova Scotia Archives Christ Church Anglican Church, Shelburne (microfilm 11856x)
Land petition from black settlers of Manchester
Date: 7 October 1786
Reference: Commissioner of Crown Lands Nova Scotia Archives RG 20 series A volume 17 (1786) (microfilm 15691)
Advertisement for runaway "indented Negro man, named Henry Jones"
Date: 26 October 1786
Reference: Nova Scotia Archives Nova Scotia Packet and General Advertiser 26 October 1786 page 1 (microfilm 4823)
Bill to provincial government for surveying Birch Town
Date: 20 November 1787
Reference: Nova Scotia Archives MG 100 volume 256 number 30 (microfilm 21819)
"A black wood cutter at Shelburne, Nova Scotia"
Date: 1788
Artist: W. Booth
Reference: Nova Scotia Archives National Archives of Canada C-040162 W.H. Coverdale Collection of Canadiana
Will of Joseph Totten of Annapolis
Date: 12 March 1788
Reference: Nova Scotia Archives Annapolis County probate records estate case file T1 (microfilm 19057)
Will of Ann Cosby (née Winniett) of Annapolis Royal
Date: 14 March 1788
Reference: Nova Scotia Archives Annapolis County probate records estate case file C11 (microfilm 19013)
Pen portrait of Stephen Blucke, in William Booth, "Rough memorandums from 20th January to 24th March 1789"
Date: 14 March 1789
Credit: Esther Clark Wright Archives, Acadia University
Reference Esther Clark Wright Archives, Acadia University accession number 1971.001
Runaway slave advertisement
Date: 7 September 1790
Reference: Nova Scotia Archives Royal Gazette 7 September 1790 page 1 (microfilm 8164)
Advertisement for the settlement of black Nova Scotians in Sierra Leone
Date: 2 August 1791
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 419 number 1 (microfilm 15460)
John Clarkson's account of the story of Lydia Jackson
Date: 30 November 1791
Reference: John Clarkson Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 volume 219 pages 197-201; published in Clarkson's Mission to America, 1791-1792 page 89-90 (Public Archives of Nova Scotia Publication number 11, 1971) (F90 /N85/ Ar2P number 11) view this publication PDF