A List of Supplemental Links to Chapter 2
2.1. SLAVERY AND EARLY TESTIMONY IN NEW FRANCE 43
2.2. WRITING AND READING CARLETON’S “BOOK OF NEGROES” 47
- Carleton Papers – Book of Negroes, 1783 (Library and Archives Canada)
- From Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester: Papers, The National Archives, Kew digitized page scans (Nova Scotia Archives)
- The Book of Negroes, 1783 (blackloyalist.com)
- “Book of Negroes,” 1783 (Nova Scotia Government – Open Data Portal)
The War of Independence and the Provisions for Peace 47
- The Somersett case and the Slave Trade, 18-20 June 1772 (The National Archives)
- Report of Somerset v Stewart (22 June 1772) (CommonLII)
- Lord Dunmore’s 1775 Proclamation (Digital History)
- The Philipsburg Proclamation of 1779 (blackloyalist.com)
Negotiating Freedom: The “Cases” in the “Book of Negroes” 49
- Port Roseway Associates – Black Loyalist Refugees, 1782-1807 (Government of Canada)
- A Narrative of Events, since the First of August, 1834, by James Williams, an Apprenticed Labourer in Jamaica [Summary], James Williams, 1837 (Documenting the American South)
Incomplete Life Stories: The Inspection Roll 54
- Book of Negroes [Black Loyalist Directory] (blackloyalist.com)
- Port Roseway Associates: Names submitted to be part of The Port Roseway Association group of United Empire Loyalists evacuated from New York to Shelburne, Nova Scotia 1783 (globalgenalogy.com)
- Loyalist Beginnings: The Port Roseway Associates (virtualmuseum.ca)
- Entry for Sally Taylor in the “Muster Book of Free Black, Settlement of Birchtown,” the Port Roseway Associates (Government of Canada)
- “Black Pilots’ Connection to Henry Mowatt,” Anne Yarbrough blog entry (“Nova Scotia Island Journal” blog)
- The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African, Olaudah Equiano, 1789 (Hanover College)
2.3. EARLY BLACK NARRATIVES, NOVA SCOTIA, AND MODERNITY 62
The Black Nova Scotian Accounts of John Marrant, Boston King, and David George 62
- A Narrative of the Lord’s Wonderful Dealings with John Marrant, A Black, John Marrant, 1785 (archive.org) [facsimile]
- Narrative of John Marrant (blackloyalist.com)
- “An account of the life of Mr. David George, from Sierra Leone in Africa; given by himself in a conversation with Brother Rippon of London, and Brother Pearce of Birmingham,” David George, the Baptist Annual Register, London, 1793 (blackloyalist.com)
- “Memoirs of the Life of Boston King, a Black Preacher, Written by Himself during His Residence at Kingswood School,” Boston King, Methodist Magazine, 1798 (Antislavery Literature)
- Memoirs of Boston King (blackloyalist.com)
- A Journal of the Rev. John Marrant, from August 18th, 1785, to the 16th of March, 1790, John Marrant (State Library of Pennsylvania)
African Diaspora, Nova Scotia, and Modernity 73
- A Narrative of the Uncommon Sufferings, and Surprizing Deliverance of Briton Hammon, a Negro Man …, Briton Hammon, 1760 (Documenting the American South)
- A Narrative of the Most Remarkable Particulars in the Life of James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw, an African Prince, as Related by Himself, Ukawsaw Gronniosaw, 1772 (Documenting the American South)
- The History of the Rise, Progress, and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave Trade of the British Parliament, Thomas Clarkson, 1808 (gutenberg.org).
- Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil and Wicked Traffic of the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species, Ottabah Cugoano (John Stewart in England), 1787 (University of Michigan)
- The Paris Peace Treaty 1783 and Associated Documents (The Avalon Project, Yale Law School)
- “An Act to Prevent the Further Introduction of Slaves”: General information on the 1793 Anti-Slavery Act, John Graves Simcoe (Historical Narratives of Early Canada).