Black Slavery in the Maritimes: A History in Documents: (From the Broadview Sources Series)

ISBN-13: 9781554813865 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 168 str.

Harvey Amani Whitfield

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Thousands of black people were enslaved in the Maritimes, Quebec, and Upper Canada between the seventeenth and early nineteenth centuries. This sourcebook collects a variety of documents, including runaway slave advertisements, letters, court cases, and official government documents, offering readers an opportunity to explore the contours of black slavery in the Maritimes.

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• Introduction
• Chronology
• Questions to Consider
• Part I: Runaway Slave Advertisements and Slave for Sale Notices
• Document 1: Halifax Slaves for Sale in Boston, 1751
• Document 2: Slaves for Sale, Halifax, Nova Scotia, 1752
• Document 3: Runaway Slave Advertisement, Female Slave Named Thursday, Nova Scotia, 1772
• Document 4: Slave Wanted Advertisement, Nova Scotia, 1776
• Document 5: Runaway Advertisement, James, Nova Scotia, 1781 and 1786
• Document 6: Female Slave to be Sold at Public Auction, Nova Scotia, 1783
• Document 7: Runaway Slave Advertisement, An African Slave, Nova Scotia, 1783
• Document 8: Runaway Slave Advertisement, Dick, Nova Scotia, 1783
• Document 9: Runaway Slave Advertisement, Ben, Nova Scotia 1783
• Document 10: Slave for Sale, “Negro Boy,” New Brunswick, 1784
• Document 11: Runaway Slave Advertisement, Hector, New Brunswick, 1784
• Document 12: Runaway Advertisement, Unfree Black Laborers, 1784, New Brunswick
• Document 13: Runaway Slave Advertisement, Jupiter and Clarinda, Nova Scotia, 1784
• Document 14: A Family Escapes, Nova Scotia, 1785
• Document 15: Slave for Sale Advertisement, 14 Year old, Nova Scotia, 1786
• Document 16: Slave for Sale Advertisement, 14 Year Old boy, New Brunswick, 1786
• Document 17: Slaves for Sale Advertisement, A Man and boy, New Brunswick, 1786
• Document 18: Runaway Slave Advertisement, Ben, 1786, New Brunswick
• Document 19: Runaway Slave Advertisement, Five Slaves Escape Caleb Jones, New Brunswick 1786
• Document 20: Runaway Slave Advertisement, Dinah, Nova Scotia 1786
• Document 21: Slave for Sale Advertisement, Teenage Girl, New Brunswick, 1787
• Document 22: Slave for Sale Advertisement, Young Woman, New Brunswick, 1787
• Document 23: Runaway Slave Advertisement, Sam and Beller, (siblings) escape, New Brunswick, 1787
• Document 24: Runaway Slave Advertisement, Abraham teenager, New Brunswick, 1787
• Document 25: Runaway Slave Advertisement, London, Age 18, New Brunswick, 1787
• Document 26: Runaway Slave Advertisement, Keziah, New Brunswick, 1787
• Document 27: Slave for Sale Advertisement, Young Black Woman, New Brunswick, 1788
• Document 28: Runaway Slave Advertisement, Prince, 1788
• Document 29: Runaway Slave Advertisement, Poll, 1791, New Brunswick
• Document 30: Runaway Slave Advertisement, Statia and Her Family, New Brunswick, 1792
• Document 31: Runaway Slave Advertisement, Prince, New Brunswick, 1792
• Document 32: Runaway Slave Advertisement, Joseph Odel and Peter Lawrence, Nova Scotia, 1792
• Document 33: Runaway Slave Advertisement, Bill/Belfast, Nova Scotia, 1794
• Document 34: Slave for Sale, Young Man, New Brunswick, 1799
• Document 35: Runaway Slave Advertisement, Gill and Dick, New Brunswick, 1799
• Document 36: Female Sold for a Term of Years, Nova Scotia, 1800
• Document 37: Runaway Slave Advertisement, Two Slaves, 1802, New Brunswick
• Document 38: Runaway Slave Advertisement, Dinah, New Brunswick, 1806
• Document 39: Slave for Sale, Nancy, New Brunswick, 1809
• Document 40: Runaway Slave Advertisement, Lidge Escapes Again, New Brunswick 1816
• Document 41: Runaway Advertisement, Samuel Hutchings, New Brunswick, 1818
• Part II: Letters, Narratives, Newspapers, Petitions
• Document 42: John Wentworth Letter about his 19 Slaves, Nova Scotia, 1784
• Document 43: Petition of Zimri Armstrong about Re-enslavement, New Brunswick, 1785
• Document 44: James MacGregor, A Letter to a Clergyman Urging him to set free a Black Girl he held in SLAVERY, Nova Scotia, 1788
• Document 45: Petition of Thomas Peters to the British Government, 1790
• Document 46: John Clarkson’s Diary, Lydia Jackson’s Re-enslavement and Other Observations, 1791
• Document 47: Thomas Clarkson, “Some Account of the New Colony at Sierra Leone,” Re-enslavement, 1792
• Document 48: David George’s Narrative 1793
• Document 49: Boston King’s Narrative, 1798
• Document 50: Gradual Emancipation of Jack and Amelia in Prince Edward Island, 1800
• Document 51: Joseph Aplin’s Racial Justification for Slavery, 1801
• Document 52: Excerpts from OPINIONS OF SEVERAL GENTLEMEN OF THE LAW, ON THE SUBJECT OF NEGRO SERVITUDE IN THE PROVINCE OF NOVA-SCOTIA, 1802
• Document 53: Digby Slave-owners’ Petition, Nova Scotia, 1807
• Document 54: Petition of Isaac Willoughby, Former Slave, 1834, Nova Scotia
• Document 55: Article Supporting Slavery and Decrying Free Blacks, 1842, Nova Scotia
• Part III: Court Cases and Bills of Sale
• Document 56: Bill of Sale, Young boy from Maryland, 1779, Nova Scotia
• Document 57: Bill of Sale, Mintur, 1779
• Document 58: King v. Jesse Gray, for whipping Pero 100 times, Nova Scotia, 1786
• Document 59: Mary Postell Affidavit, Nova Scotia 1791
• Document 60: Grand Jury Complaint, Re-enslavement of black boy sent to the West Indies Illegally, Nova Scotia, 1794
• Document 61: James DeLancey Complaint Against William Woodin, 1803
• Document 62: Supreme Court “Nancy” Case, New Brunswick, 1800
• Document 63: Ward Chipman’s Slavery Brief, New Brunswick Supreme Court, 1800
• Document 64: R v. Andrews (Indictment of Samuel Andrews Jr.), Slave-owners murder a female slave, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, 1801
• Document 65: Slave Returned to Owner, Supreme Court, Prince Edward Island, 1802
• Document 66: Bill of Sale for Percilla, 8 Year Old Girl, 1804, Nova Scotia
• Document 67: Supreme Court Case, Newspaper Account, New Brunswick, 1806
• Part IV: Government Documents
• Document 68: Governor Cornwallis discusses Captain Bloss and His slaves, 1750
• Document 69: An Act, declaring that Baptism of SLAVES shall not exempt them from BONDAGE, 1781, Prince Edward Island
• Document 70: Book of Negroes
• Document 71: Dick Hill, Re-Enslaved, Shelburne, 1787, Nova Scotia (will have to change number because of date)
• Document 72: An Act for the Regulation & Relief of the free Negroes within the Province of Nova Scotia, (Un-passed), 1789
• Document 73: A Bill Relating to Negroes, 6 February 1801, (Un-passed), Legislative Assembly Records, New Brunswick
• Document 74: AN ACT to repeal an Act made and passed in the twenty-first year of his late Majesty’s reign intituled “An Act, declaring that Baptism of SLAVES shall not exempt them from BONDAGE,” Statutes of Prince Edward Island, 1825
• Document 75: Prince Edward Island and Montserrat Connection, 1828
• Part V: Wills and Church Records
• Document 76: Probate Record of Joseph Totten, Nova Scotia, 1788
• Document 77: Probate Record of Thomas Leonard, Nova Scotia, 1788
• Document 78: Probate Record of Anna Lillie (or Ann Lilie), Nova Scotia, 1789
• Document 79: Teenage Slave Diana Bastian Burial Note-Her Rape and Pregnancy by George More, Member of Council, Cape Breton, 1792
• Document 80: Probate Record of Caleb Fowler, Nova Scotia, 1793
• Document 81: Probate Record of George Cornwall, Nova Scotia, 1799
• Document 82: Probate Record of Jacob Ellegood
• Document 83: Probate Record of Benjamin Belcher, Nova Scotia, 1801
• Document 84: Probate Record of Jacob Troop, Nova Scotia, 1805
• Document 85: Probate Record of Isaac Bonnell, Nova Scotia, 1806
• Document 86: Probate Record of William Wanton, New Brunswick, 1812
• Document 87: Probate Record of William Schurman (or Schurmann), Prince Edward Island, 1819
• Additional Suggested Readings