African Nova Scotian Teaching and Learning
Letter from James G. Barbadoes of Boston requesting information on behalf of Black people wishing to proceed to Trinidad. Addressed to Sir Rupert D. George, Provincial Secretary
Date: 31 November 1839
Reference Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 422 number 54
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?