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!*AFRICVILLE - Urban Removal in Canada Article: 1685
Africville: Urban Removal in Canada  By Pamela Brown, 2 December
1996  "I think the Man got what he wanted - that (Africville)
land. It was as simple as that. People were allowed to stay
there the same as black folks anywhere; they could stay until
the White man decided. Okay, now I want my land back. And the
time came, and he said, "Okay nigger, get out!" And all the
black folks had to get out." -- This is from an interview with a
Nova Scotian Black Leader, Halifax, Nova Scotia, August 1969
Africville was a black community within the city of Halifax,
inhabited by approximately four hundred people, comprising
eighty families, many of who were descended from settlers who
had moved there over a century ago. (settlers origin follows at
end of document) Tucked away in a corner of the city, relatively
in