Nova Scotia Archives
African Nova Scotians in the Age of Slavery and Abolition
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R. v. Gray (indictment of Jesse Gray for selling Mary Postell as a slave and kidnapping Flora Postell her daughter)
Date: April-November 1791
Reference: Shelburne County Court of General Sessions of the Peace Nova Scotia Archives RG 60 Shelburne County volume 1 file 49-4
Letter From Michael Wallace concerning the cost of sending black Nova Scotians to Sierra Leone
Date: 1 December 1791
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 419 number 6 (microfilm 15460)
Letter From Michael Wallace concerning the number of black people interested in leaving for Sierra Leone
Date: 17 December 1791
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 419 number 10 (microfilm 15460)
Burial record of Diana Bustian, slave of Adam Cuyler, Sydney
Date: 15 September 1792
Reference: Nova Scotia Archives St. George's Anglican Church, Sydney: 1785-1827 page 39 (microfilm 11909x)
Plan of Port Roseway Harbour
Date: published London 12 July 1798
Cartographer: Captain Holland
Reference: Nova Scotia Archives A New Chart of the Coast of Nova Scotia...by Captain Holland (map 239-1798)
Runaway slave advertisement
Date: 15 March 1794
Reference: Nova Scotia Archives Weekly Chronicle 15 March 1794 page 1 (microfilm 8165)
Case of a black boy carried off to the West Indies
Date: 22 April 1794
Reference: Shelburne County Court of General Sessions of the Peace Nova Scotia Archives RG 34-321 J 145
"Leonard Parkinson, a captain of the Maroons"
Date: published 1796
Engraver: Abraham Raimbach
Reference: Nova Scotia Archives B. Edwards, The Proceedings of the Governor and Assembly of Jamaica, in Regard to the Maroon Negroes… to which is prefixed an Introductory Account… of the Maroons… (London, 1796) (F210 /Ed9)
Deed of sale of a slave child
Date: 14 July 1796
Reference: Chesley family fonds Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 volume 177 number 75
Wentworth report on the Maroons
Date: 21 April 1797
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 52 number 41 pages 53-60 (microfilm 15238)
Wentworth's instructions regarding the recently arrived Jamaican Maroons
Date: 29 June 1797
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 419 number 19 (microfilm 15460)
Letter from Sir John Wentworth to the Duke of Portland
Date: 23 June 1798
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 52 number 57 (pages 186-9) (microfilm 15238)
Advertisement about runaway indentured servant, James Wallace
Date: 11 June 1799
Reference: Nova Scotia Archives Royal Gazette 11 June 1799 page 3 (microfilm 8168)
Letter from Sir John Wentworth to Richard Molesworth
Date: 15 January 1800
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 52 pages 377-9 (microfilm 15238)
Advertisement for lease of a woman slave
Date: 24 June 1800
Reference: Nova Scotia Archives Royal Gazette 24 June 1800 page 3 (microfilm 8168)