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

______________________________________
To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe please see the instructions at
http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-hist.html