"H the K" wrote in message
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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.


Slavery was almost dead in the US. About the same time as the Brits banned
slavery. Was not economically viable. Major reason Britain banned it. But
about the time slavery would of ended here, Eli Whitney invented the cotton
gin. Made slavery economically viable. And only a minority of the people
owned slaves. Even freed blacks owned slaves. Something like 26% of the NC
households owned slaves. A bad thing, but it is a hell of a lot different
than Harry's "Economic Slavery".