![]() A few enterprising students might unearth newspaper advertisements for runaway slaves.įor example, the July 3, 1792, issue of The Royal Gazette and the Nova Scotia Advertiser carries a crude sketch of runaway slaves with the advertisement: “Run Away, Joseph Odel and Peter Lawrence (Negroes) from their Masters, and left Digby last evening. Indeed, many high-school or university students would come back empty-handed if you sent them to the library in search of material about blacks in the eighteenth century. It is not easy to find original documents about the history of blacks in Canada. Canada's History Youth Committee Members.The John Bragg Award for Atlantic Canada. ![]() Historical Thinking Community of Practice. ![]()
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