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Archive · The British register, 1783

April 23 to November 30, 1783

“Book of Negroes,” pages used in the exhibition

The register’s title page and the page with Phillis Sparrow and her children. The full register is searchable at Nova Scotia Archives.

Where it is kept
The National Archives (UK), Kew, Carleton Papers, PRO 30/55/100 (British copy); images courtesy Nova Scotia Archives.
Read it

More pages, including the first page with the column headings, to come.

Title page (detail)
Page 16
The Sparrow entry, pp. 25 to 26 (detail)