Nova Scotia Archives
African Nova Scotian Teaching and Learning
Report by Richard Best to Henry H. Cogswell, Deputy Provincial Secretary, on the Black Refugee establishment at Melville Island
Date: 9 November 1815
Reference Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 420 number 80
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?