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Africville

Africville. Instructions: Textbook = Towards Freedom Read pages 120 to 122. Answer questions #1 to 7 on Africville that are located on the hand-out with the map of NS. You have 15 minutes to complete the questions!. 1. Where was Africville located? - North end of Halifax, NS

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Africville

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  1. Africville

  2. Instructions: Textbook = Towards Freedom • Read pages 120 to 122. • Answer questions #1 to 7 on Africville that are located on the hand-out with the map of NS. You have 15 minutes to complete the questions!

  3. 1. Where was Africville located? - North end of Halifax, NS - Beside the MacKay Bridge at the edge of the Bedford Basin Answers

  4. Answers • When and how did Africville form? - 1848 - Through a Land Purchase

  5. Answers • What was the base of the community? - The Seaview Baptist Church

  6. Answers • How were the people of Africville industrious? - They worked as labourers and in service jobs in Halifax - Halifax stonemasons helped construct many of Halifax’s public buildings - Worked on ships and at the ship yard.

  7. Answers • Why was land expropriated from the community in the 1850’s? - Railroad tracks and sewage disposal pits were located there.

  8. Africville • What did the city council locate just a “stone’s throw away” in the mid-1950s? - A large dump

  9. Answers • Why did city council vote to expropriate Africville in 1964? - In the name of “urban renewal” - They believed that Africville was slums and there was an article in a newspaper calling it a black ghetto.

  10. Notes These are located on the handout with the questions #1 to 7 • Majority of the residents were descendents of the black refugees from the War of 1812. • It was initially known as Campbell Road, but because the residents were black it was changed to Africville • Although the residents paid the city taxes, there was a lack of basic services such as sewers, running water and paved roads • It became the home to Rockland Prison (1853), an infectious disease hospital (1870s), a trachoma hospital (1905) and a slaughter house.

  11. Notes • Residents were given $500 to relocate • They owned there homes in Africville, but were moved to public housing and had to pay rent. This caused a lot to go on welfare. • They were moved in City dump trucks • The two main areas they were moved to were: Uniacke Square and Mulgrave Park

  12. Notes • It is now a national historic site known as Seaview Memorial Park

  13. Africville Homework Hand-out You are a resident of Africville who has been asked to relocate. Write a letter to the City Council asking them to keep Africville instead of destroying it. You must defend your argument by using examples. length = app. 150 to 200 words

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