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43 U.N.B.L.J. 73 (1994)
Slavery and the Judges of Loyalist Nova Scotia

handle is hein.journals/unblj43 and id is 81 raw text is: SLAVERY AND THE JUDGES OF LOYALIST NOVA SCOTIA Barry Cahill A Magna Charta confirming and enforcing slavery, would be, indeed, a solecism in English jurisprudence. - Henry James Pye, MP, 1789 [Tihe Black people being considered in this Province [Nova Scotia], in no better light than beasts ...... - Lieutenant John Clarkson, 1792 Since my appointment to this Government [in 1792], I have taken care that they [Black people] are equally protected and encouraged as other [of] His Majesty's Subjects: and Slavery being almost exterminated here, distinctions naturally painful to these people are gradually dying away. - Lieutenant-Governor Sir John Wentworth, 1796 How terrible is that situation which renders slavery hereditary, and makes it impossible for humanity ever to recover its rights! - Attorney-General Jonathan Bliss, 1800 They [Black people] are all free, as our provincial Laws, in this respect, follow those of England and Slavery is not known. - The Reverend Dr. Robert Stanser, 1811 ... the masters hold them [Black slaves] when they can - but dare not bring the Case to Trial. - anon., Halifax, 1812 Although this question [Black slavery] never received a judicial decision the slaves were all emancipated. - Thomas Chandler Haliburton, 1829 -Archivist, Manuscripts Division, Public Archives of Nova Scotia [hereinafter PANS]; editor, Nova Scotia Historical Review. The model for, and inspiration of, this article is D.G. Bell, Slavery and the Judges of Loyalist New Brunswick (1982) 31 U.N.B.L.J. 9 [hereinafter Bell], with which the present article must be read in tandem. The manuscript has benefited from critiques by Professor Bell, of the Faculty of Law, University of New Brunswick, and by Professor Philip Girard, of the Faculty of Law, Dalhousie University, to both of whom the author wishes to express his most grateful thanks.

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