Black History Sources

Visit the Collection’s Black History Guide  for primary sources related to Black History in the Atlantic World and the African Diaspora.

African American holding a pole

                                                         Detail from runaway slave advertisement, Halifax Gazette, July 5, 1791. (UNB Libraries)

 

For documents specifically related to the history of enslaved people and slavery in what became the Maritime Provinces of Canada, see:

 

Loyalists and Slavery Maritimes Primary Sources LC.pdf