Until 1800, when its courts decisively ruled the institution illegal, there were slaves, as well as free blacks, in Nova Scotia, and there were hundreds of thousands more in the British Caribbean.

In the last decade of the 19th century, the French and British fought with the Benin and Dahomey kingdoms, conquered them and freed all ...

Carleton held to the position that the removal of slaves -- specifically ... on British military transports to be resettled in Nova Scotia. By this time, as many as 4,000 had been evacuated ...

The Sierra Leone resettlement scheme was designed to provide a new life for 400 destitute mainly black people in London. This was also seen by some as a good way of disposing of a troublesome ...

Born on 2 January 1835, in Lockhartville, Nova Scotia, near the village of Hantsport, Jackson’s parents had escaped slavery ...

The Sierra Leone resettlement scheme was designed to provide a new life for 400 destitute mainly black people in London. This was also seen by some as a good way of disposing of a troublesome ...