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The "Book of Negroes" is the single most important document relating to the immigration of African Americans to Nova Scotia following the War of Independence. It provides the names of 3000 black refugees registered on board the vessels in which they sailed from New York to Nova Scotia between 23 April and 30 November 1783.

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Name	Format	Description	Link
"Book of Negroes", 1783 (CSV)	CSV		https://data.novascotia.ca/api/views/xxcy-v3fh/rows.csv?accessType=DOWNLOAD
"Book of Negroes", 1783 (CSV Excel)	CSV		https://data.novascotia.ca/api/views/xxcy-v3fh/rows.csv?accessType=DOWNLOAD&bom=true&format=true
"Book of Negroes", 1783 (CSV Excel (EU))	CSV		https://data.novascotia.ca/api/views/xxcy-v3fh/rows.csv?accessType=DOWNLOAD&bom=true&format=true&delimiter=%3B
"Book of Negroes", 1783 (RDF)	RDF		https://data.novascotia.ca/api/views/xxcy-v3fh/rows.rdf?accessType=DOWNLOAD
"Book of Negroes", 1783 (RSS)	RSS		https://data.novascotia.ca/api/views/xxcy-v3fh/rows.rss?accessType=DOWNLOAD
"Book of Negroes", 1783 (TSV)	Unknown		https://data.novascotia.ca/api/views/xxcy-v3fh/rows.tsv?accessType=DOWNLOAD&bom=true&format=true&delimiter=%3B
"Book of Negroes", 1783 (XML)	XML		https://data.novascotia.ca/api/views/xxcy-v3fh/rows.xml?accessType=DOWNLOAD
Nova Scotia original metadata (https://data.novascotia.ca)	HTML		https://data.novascotia.ca/datasets/xxcy-v3fh

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