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The Night Halifax Bulldozed a Church-and Erased a Community's Proof
The Night Halifax Bulldozed a Church-and Erased a Community's Proof
Fear that a whole people’s proof can vanish overnight: a bulldozer arrived after dark on November 20, 1967, and by morning Seaview African United Baptist Church - with birth, marriage and death registers spanning more than a century - was rubble and the documents were gone. How did demolition happen before the city’s recorded ownership, and who changed the legal date?
In this episode, you’ll hear the timeline of Africville from its founding land purchases in 1848-1849 through decades of neglect and the night the church was…
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