Gene wrote:
On Sun, 23 Aug 2009 09:24:55 -0400, BAR wrote:

Keith Nuttle wrote:
Don White wrote:
http://thechronicleherald.ca/NovaScotia/1138864.html

I believe that after the South lost the American Civil War, there were
many families who moved to NS. I was not aware that there were Black
family that also moved to NS.
They may have been the black slave owners who moved to NS.

That was my first thought, too..... most Yankees don't even know
there was such a thing!


The Brits "outlawed" slavery more than 20 years before the U.S. civil
war, and that included its territories, too. The blacks in Nova Scotia
in the 19th century probably were descended from freed slaves from the
American colonies and the early United States. A number of slaves were
offered freedom by the Brits in exchange for their service in the
military against the United States in the War of 1812, and were given
land in Nova Scotia after that war.