Includes a fully searchable database containing names of about 5000 African American immigrants who came to Nova Scotia in 1783 and 1815-16. Also a virtual exhibit featuring photographs of early black settlements and descendants of original settlers, 1880-1955.

Jul 31, 2021 · This year, as Nova Scotians officially observe Emancipation Day for the first time, there are calls to not only recognize this province's brutal history of slavery — but to make reparations for...

West Africans escaped slavery by coming to Nova Scotia in early British and French Colonies in the 17th and 18th centuries. Many came as enslaved people, primarily from the French West Indies to Nova Scotia during the founding of Louisbourg .

The Nova Scotian Settlers, or Sierra Leone Settlers (also known as the Nova Scotians or more commonly as the Settlers), were African Americans and African Nova Scotians or Black Canadians of African-American descent who founded the settlement of Freetown, Sierra Leone and the Colony of Sierra Leone, on March 11, 1792.

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It includes the names and descriptions of 3000 black refugees registered on board the vessels in which they sailed from New York to Nova Scotia between 23 April and 30 November 1783. The book also documents the cases of some fugitive slaves who were returned to their owners before they could escape to Nova Scotia.

From the royal mandate in 1689, it took approximately sixty years for the practice of slavery to reach Nova Scotia. When the Loyalists arrived in 1783, slavery was already flourishing. Thirty-five hundred Black people who fled from Southern States during the American Revolutionary War arrived in Canada with the Loyalists.

Nova Scotia can be said to be the birthplace of Black Culture and heritage in Canada, including the largest Indigenous Black community in the country. The timeline focuses on how slavery and systemic racism have left Black people vulnerable to abuse, including sexual violence.

Feb 3, 2023 · Of the estimated 4000 enslaved people who escaped to the British during the War of 1812, about 2000 of them were resettled in Nova Scotia (Canada). However, the Nova Scotian government was not welcoming toward the newly freed settlers.

Most black people brought to Nova Scotia between 1749 and 1782 were slaves of English or American settlers. In 1750 a Royal Navy officer, Thomas Bloss, brought 16 slaves to Halifax, perhaps in order to crew vessels involved in maritime commerce.