Nova Scotia Archives
African Nova Scotian Teaching and Learning
Receipt for 3 months' rent for a store used as a depot for provisions for the Black Refugees, 1 March-31 May, 1818
Date: 25 November 1818
Reference Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 420 number 125
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?