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Return to Main Page Page last Updated: Monday November 13, 2006 Black History in NewfoundlandSt. John’s 1675 - Prowse’s History: Mr. Thomas Oxford appears to have been, like Hinton, a man of some position. He kept a negro house-servant-- a most aristocratic appendage in those days--whom the West Country- men forcibly took away. "had his covenant negro servant valued worth L60 taken from him last fishing season, all which he is ready to make out by bill of sale and oath." From the Slade merchant ledgers, Fogo 1784 (unspecified preoccupation) [TC Note – not sure if this is a black person or wife of Walter Black]. http://www.huronweb.com/genweb/nfdata/main_080_4.htm#slade
Hector African slave mentioned in court documents for Ferryland September 18, 1785; http://www.heritage.nf.ca/avalon/history/documents/names_e_h.html xxxx Benger, John (d.1791) in his will Benger freed his slaves Sancho and Serah and Serah's children, Jack, Nancy and Trephon(?) and provided for them; http://www.heritage.nf.ca/avalon/history/documents/names_a_d.html xxxx Jack child of Robert Benger's slave Serah freed in Benger's will dated June 10, 1791 at Ferryland; Sancho slave freed by John Benger of Ferryland in his will dated June 10, 1791. Blackhistory Paul Cuffee, American free negro, with the assistance of some individuals (Americans) fitted out a vessel, with the humane and benevolent objective: to improve the state of his ancestral African kindred.
Capt Cuffee was born in 1759, on the island of Cutterhunker, one of the Elizabeth Islands, near New Bedford, and subsequently entered as a sailor on board a merchant vessel, and made several voyages to the West Indies. At twenty years of age he traded on his own account with the people of Connecticut, and made two voyages to the straits of Belleisle and Newfoundland. In 1806 he was the commander of the ship Alpha, of which he owned three-fourths: he manned this vessel entirely by persons of colour, and sailed to the land of his forefathers in the hope of benefiting its natives, where he originated “The Friendly Society of Sierra Leone.” On his visit to England he met with every mark of respect from the directors of The African Institution who gave him authority to carry over from the United States a few coloured persons to instruct the colonists in agriculture and the mechanical arts. His active benevolence to benefit his sable race continued unceasing till death terminated them with his life. He died on Sept 7, 1816, in the fifty-ninth year of his age. His life, appended to that of Prince Lee Boo, was printed at Dublin in 1822, 12mo. Notes and Queries Vol. 3 2nd S. (60) Feb 21 1857 Page 151. ST.JOHN’S ANGLICAN MARRIAGES: Sep 19 1779 St. John's /John WESTCOTT Katherine KENWICK, a Negro woman. Thomas Stone had just retired from Newfoundland to his native home, Poole, Dorset. It is most likely that the Negro boy was in his employ in Trinity Bay, but we cannot be absolutely certain since his was a seasonal business in Newfoundland. He maintained a dual residency in Poole, Dorset and Trinity Bay, Newfoundland. Benjamin Lester's diary in Dorset County Record Office, records their arrival in Poole on January 1st, 1792, and on the following day "Mr and Mrs Stone went in a shais (chaise) to her mother at Anderson, carried his little negro boy and Indian Girl with him." The Negro presumably came from the West Indies, and we know no more of him, but it is reported a few months later that "Oubee" [i.e. the Beothuck girl] had died. xxxx The following web-page is posted by Kinson historians: http://www.communigate.co.uk/dorset/kinsondorset/page2.phtml “…Following careful research, it did not take time to find a record of her. In about 1795, Mr.Thomas Stone was paid twelve shillings and ten pence for expenses in connection with "Eomoy". The reference was found in the records of Kinson church. Oubee was buried in an unmarked plot in the churchyard…” [TC Notes] – “Eomoy” Thos Stone servent Expenses. “Oubee”, according to Benjamin Lester’s carefully compiled diary, was dead within a few weeks of their arrival in Poole in 1792. This payment made to Thomas Stone for “Eomoy” three years later, which name does not even resemble “Oubee”, could very well relate to the Negro boy who was known to have been in the Stone household. An ignominious burial considering that Thomas Stone was quite wealthy. And where is this “great humanity and respect” from the Stones as reported? Seems like the child, if indeed it was “Oubee”, or whomever this servant was, was dumped to the Kinson parishioners. John Ryan, UEL from Rhode Island, upon his death in St. John’s freed his slave Sophie? and her children. (Dictionary of Canadian Biography). [TC Note – I am uncertain whether Ryan’s slave ever lived in Newfoundland since he apparently divided his time between St. John’s and New Brunswick.] From the Slade merchant ledgers, Fogo 1784 (unspecified preoccupation) [TC Note – not sure if this is a black person or wife of Walter Black]. http://www.huronweb.com/genweb/nfdata/main_080_4.htm#slade
TRINITY NFLD 1800 Novr 24th - Interred FELIX SMITH (a Black) belong' to B Lester Esq. The actual register should be consulted. 1813 DESERTED. Jem, native of Barbadian, negro, 5ft. 6ins., two scars on left side of his face above and below the ear. 1814 deserted. Brig "Eagle". William King, a black man, he is very subject to St. Anthony's Dance. Signed: John Cox, Capt. (2 June) THE ROYAL GAZETTE AND NEWFOUNDLAND ADVERTISER 1810-1814 DESERTED from brooming party of H.M.'s Ship
"Crescent", the 13th.
1833 Colonial Office and predecessors: Barbados, Original Correspondence CO 28/112. Letters received from various government offices (departments), other organisations and individuals relating to Barbados.: W L Trimingham (seizure of slaves employed as seamen following refusal of Newfoundland customs officer to insert their names on clearance certificates). In The Kids Book of Black Canadian History (2003) the author Rosemary Sadlier states on pg 8 that some slave ships in the Atlantic slave trade were built in Newfoundland. [TC Note] I can just see Rosemary, frantically trying to find some Black history in Newfoundland and, finding not one iota, resorted to a little fabrication in order to get Newfoundland mentioned in her book, after all the rest of Canada was well covered in her otherwise scholarly work. In Newfoundland however there was no such shipbuilding – not in the heyday of the slave trade, nor for a long time afterwards until the Kearneys and Newhooks began their shipbuilding businesses.
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