Nova Scotia Archives
African Nova Scotian Teaching and Learning
Request for pardon of Sarah Crowd, Preston, who has several children to support
Date: 4 November 1847
Reference Nova Scotia House of Assembly Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 series GP volume 1 number 156
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?