The Black Refugees and Lord Dalhousie: A Story in Seven Letters

This RNSHS Public Lecture was held virtually on 2021-05-19 and presented by Dr. Afua Cooper, Professor of Black and African Diaspora Studies at Dalhousie University.

Abstract: Dr. Cooper examines the correspondence between Lieutenant Governor Dalhousie and the Earl of Bathurst, administrator of Britain’s colonies. Setting the historical context of slavery, war, and settlement, Cooper shows how the letters reveal Dalhousie’s biases. His prejudices contributed to the cruel and unjust treatment of one of Nova Scotia’s founding Black communities, people who had escaped enslavement on American plantations for freedom with the British during the War of 1812.

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