Martha,
Thank you for this link. 

Anita 

> Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2008 15:17:29 -0400
> From: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: VCDH Launches Virginia Emigrants to Liberia Website
> To: [log in to unmask]
> 
> Anita,
> 
> I don't know if you're aware of the virtual exhibit on the Nova Scotia
> Archives and Records website titled "African Nova Scotians in the Age of
> Slavery and Abolition".  You can find it here:
> 
> http://www.gov.ns.ca/nsarm/virtual/africanns/
> 
> Included is a searchable database of about 5,000 African Nova Scotians,
> including those in the "Book of Negroes".
> 
> There is also an on-line exhibit by the Nova Scotia Museum on the same
> subject, which you can find here:
> 
> http://museum.gov.ns.ca/blackloyalists/index.htm
> 
> Martha Katz-Hyman
> 
> On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 2:58 PM, Anita Wills <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 
> > Codos to those who worked so hard on this project. The database is an
> > excellent resource, and easy to maneuver.
> >
> > It would be nice to see a database on the free blacks that settled in Nova
> > Scotia. I located many Lewis and Bowden settlers (from Virginia), whose
> > communities still exist today. William F. Buckley Senior did a photo archive
> > of the blacks in Nova Scotia. I was able to view the photographs through the
> > Nova Scotia Libraries website. Buckley was certainly a talented photographer
> > and captured the essence of this community.
> >
> > Anita
> 
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