Les Afro-Néo-Écossais à l'époque de l'esclavage et de l'abolition

The Sierra Leone Company, a British anti-slavery organization, offered free African Nova Scotians the opportunity to settle in Sierra Leone, a West African colony of freed slaves. Conditions in Nova Scotia were so difficult that about one-third decided to go to Sierra Leone.

date: 2 August 1791

numéro de référence: Commissioner of Public Records  Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 419 number 1 (microfilm 15460)