Nova Scotia Archives

African Nova Scotians in the Age of Slavery and Abolition


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"A New Map of Nova Scotia, compiled...for the Historical & Statistical Account of Nova Scotia"

Date: 1829

Publisher: [Joseph Howe?]

Reference: Nova Scotia Archives Map Collection

Theme: Black Refugees, 1813-1834


Memorial of George Winder of New Road (Cherry Brook)

Date: 9 November 1829

Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly — Assembly petitions series  Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 series P volume 57 number 82 (microfilm 9941)

Theme: Black Refugees, 1813-1834


"Province House, Hollis Street, Halifax"

Date: published by Colburn & Bentley, London 1830

Artist: J. Clark

Reference: Nova Scotia Archives William Moorsom, Letters From Nova Scotia: Comprising Sketches of a Young Country (London, 1830), page 10 opposite (F100 / M78) (microfilm 3870)

Theme: Black Refugees, 1813-1834


"A Black Article" (introductory paragraph)

Date: 27 June 1832

Reference: Nova Scotia Archives Novascotian 27 June 1832 page 1 (microfilm 8069)

Theme: Black Refugees, 1813-1834


Petition from Richard Preston and others concerning the African Baptist Church

Date: 25 February 1833

Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly — Assembly petitions series  Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 series P volume 42 number 51 (microfilm 9782)

Theme: Black Refugees, 1813-1834



Petition of Richard Preston for money to pay for a teacher

Date: 15 February 1834

Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly — Assembly petitions series  Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 series P volume 72 number 44 (microfilm 9957)

Theme: Black Refugees, 1813-1834


"City clergy: Rev'd Mr Preston"

Date: [ca. 1850]

Artist: Dr. J.B. Gilpin

Credit: History Collection, Nova Scotia Museum

Reference Nova Scotia Museum P149.29

Theme: Black Refugees, 1813-1834


"An act to prevent the clandestine landing of liberated slaves..."

Date: 16 April 1834

Reference: Nova Scotia Archives Statutes of Nova Scotia 1834 c. 68 (J104 / H6 1834)

Theme: Black Refugees, 1813-1834


"Bedford Basin near Halifax (Nova Scotia)"

Date: 1835

Artist: Robert Petley

Credit: Library and Archives Canada

Reference National Archives of Canada C-115424

Theme: Black Refugees, 1813-1834


Memorial of William McLaughlin of Preston

Date: 14 February 1836

Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly — Assembly petitions series  Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 series P volume 52 number 45 (microfilm 9798)

Theme: Black Refugees, 1813-1834


"Return of schools in the County of Digby for the year ended the 30th Nov. 1838"

Date: 1838

Reference: Nova Scotia Archives RG 14 volume 12 number 73 (1838) (microfilm 21875)

Theme: Black Refugees, 1813-1834


Untitled portrait of a black youth (Nova Scotia)

Date: [between 1840 and 1846]

Artist: Mary McKie

Credit: Library and Archives Canada

Reference National Archives of Canada accession number 1990-207-94; C-009564 Lady Falkland album

Theme: Black Refugees, 1813-1834


Untitled portrait of a black man (Nova Scotia)

Date: [ca. 1845]

Artist: attributed to Lady Falkland

Credit: Library and Archives Canada

Reference National Archives of Canada accession number 1990-207-88; C-104919 Lady Falkland album

Theme: Black Refugees, 1813-1834


Map detail showing Preston

Date: [1865]

Publisher: A.F. Church & Co.

Reference: Nova Scotia Archives Topographical Township Map of Halifax County, Nova Scotia

Theme: Black Refugees, 1813-1834


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