Nova Scotia Archives
African Nova Scotian Teaching and Learning
Letter from H. Hotham, Captain of the Fleet, to the Governor of Nova Scotia, regarding landing the Black Refugees from the Chesapeake Bay area. Written on board Ship San Domingo in Halifax Harbour
Date: 1 October 1813
Reference Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 420 number 3
Questions to Consider
- When do you think the document was written?
- 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?