Nova Scotia Archives
African Nova Scotians in the Age of Slavery and Abolition
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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
Theme: Black Loyalists, 1783-1792
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)
Theme: Black Loyalists, 1783-1792
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)
Theme: Black Loyalists, 1783-1792
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)
Theme: Black Loyalists, 1783-1792
Bill to provincial government for surveying Birch Town
Date: 20 November 1787
Reference: Nova Scotia Archives MG 100 volume 256 number 30 (microfilm 21819)
Theme: Black Loyalists, 1783-1792
"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
Theme: Black Loyalists, 1783-1792
Will of Joseph Totten of Annapolis
Date: 12 March 1788
Reference: Nova Scotia Archives Annapolis County probate records estate case file T1 (microfilm 19057)
Theme: Black Loyalists, 1783-1792
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)
Theme: Black Loyalists, 1783-1792
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
Theme: Black Loyalists, 1783-1792
Runaway slave advertisement
Date: 7 September 1790
Reference: Nova Scotia Archives Royal Gazette 7 September 1790 page 1 (microfilm 8164)
Theme: Black Loyalists, 1783-1792
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)
Theme: Black Loyalists, 1783-1792
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)
Theme: Black Loyalists, 1783-1792
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
Theme: Black Loyalists, 1783-1792
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)
Theme: Black Loyalists, 1783-1792
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)
Theme: Black Loyalists, 1783-1792