Nova Scotia Archives
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Copy of a letter from Lord Castlereagh to the Governor or Commander of the forces in Nova Scotia, relating to the government provision for the American Black Refugees Enclosing orders in Council etc, relating to the slave trade and assigning the duty of managing and providing for ensalved Blacks captured or brought into Halifax to the Chief Officer of the Customs
Date: 10 April 1808
Reference Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 420 number 9
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- Who do you think wrote the document?
- Why do you think the document was written
- Who do you think received the document?
- Who do you think this document was written for?
- What information do you think this document provides? What do you think it tells us about the past?
- How do you think the document reflects the attitudes and values of the time period in which it was written?
- What impact do you think the document had at the time it was written?
- Do you think those were different impacts for different people?