18th Century Slave Owners in Nova Scotia (25 фев 1700 г. – 23 март 1799 г.)

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"Like in New France, slave owners in eighteenth century Nova Scotia were not only elite settlers but were found in all ranks of white society. (Whitfield 2010: 33). Enslaved Black men, women and children were largely forced to perform domestic and agricultural work. Agricultural work was extremely physically arduous. Contesting assertions made by some Canadian slavery scholars that domestic slavery was 'mild' as compared to plantation economies, Atlantic Canadian slavery scholar Harvey Amani Whitfield has written that domestic slavery engendered its own dimensions of brutality and involved being on-call twenty-four hours a day and performing gruelling labour (2010: 30)... Further challenging assumptions that domestic servitude in the British-controlled colonies of New France and Nova Scotia was benign, Nelson notes that the comparably small holdings of slavers in pr-Confederation Canada resulted in particularly acute isolation from a larger community of slaves. The enslaved, she argues, were routinely separated across massive distances from their kin (2016c: 62). Additionally, the smaller size of the enslaved population meant a level of white surveillance that was possibly more extreme than in plantation societies. This visibility and constant scrutiny made it far more difficult for the enslaved to successfully escape..."

Robyn Maynard. Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present (2017). Pg. 24

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