Blacks in Canada: A HistoryMcGill-Queen's Press - MQUP, 1997 M02 13 - 576 pages Using an impressive array of primary and secondary materials, Robin Winks details the diverse experiences of Black immigrants to Canada, including Black slaves brought to Nova Scotia and the Canadas by Loyalists at the end of the American Revolution, Black refugees who fled to Nova Scotia following the War of 1812, Jamaican Maroons, and fugitive slaves who fled to British North America. He also looks at Black West Coast businessmen who helped found British Columbia, particularly Victoria, and Black settlement in the prairie provinces. Throughout Winks explores efforts by African-Canadians to establish and maintain meaningful lifestyles in Canada. The Blacks in Canada investigates the French and English periods of slavery, the abolitionist movement in Canada, and the role played by Canadians in the broader continental antislavery crusade, as well as Canadian adaptations to nineteenth- and twentieth-century racial mores. The second edition includes a new introduction by Winks on changes that have occurred since the book's first appearance and where African-Canadian studies stands today. |
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... Ontario in 1965 and until 1968 African - Canadians were denied burial in some Nova Scotian cemeteries . My interest in the subject had grown from a variety of influences . As a teenager I had seen my schoolteacher father dismissed from ...
... Ontario in 1965 and until 1968 African - Canadians were denied burial in some Nova Scotian cemeteries . My interest in the subject had grown from a variety of influences . As a teenager I had seen my schoolteacher father dismissed from ...
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... Ontario before the Civil War , about the Ku Klux Klan in Canada , about Africville and Halifax . Yet if these subjects , and others , remain insufficiently explored , the student of African - Canadian history can rejoice in the ...
... Ontario before the Civil War , about the Ku Klux Klan in Canada , about Africville and Halifax . Yet if these subjects , and others , remain insufficiently explored , the student of African - Canadian history can rejoice in the ...
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... Ontario Human Rights Commission , and Professor Alexander L. Murray of York Univer- sity gave me access to their unpublished dissertations , while the late Fred Landon , Professor Emeritus of the University of Western Ontario , showed ...
... Ontario Human Rights Commission , and Professor Alexander L. Murray of York Univer- sity gave me access to their unpublished dissertations , while the late Fred Landon , Professor Emeritus of the University of Western Ontario , showed ...
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... Ontario History Ontario Historical Society OPA Ontario Public Archives , Toronto PAC Public Archives of Canada , Ottawa PANS Public Archives of Nova Scotia , Halifax PRO PSHS RSC SPG TPL WO Public Record Office , London Pennsylvania ...
... Ontario History Ontario Historical Society OPA Ontario Public Archives , Toronto PAC Public Archives of Canada , Ottawa PANS Public Archives of Nova Scotia , Halifax PRO PSHS RSC SPG TPL WO Public Record Office , London Pennsylvania ...
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... Northumberland Loke Shubenocodie Strait 27 26 16 O TI A S .6 8 . 7 St. Mary's Bay Towns Prince Edward Island Nova Scotia Trinidad 1792 1800 Great Britain Sierra Leone Niger R Ontario and Quebec Towns - Ontario 6. Edwordsburgh 5. Prescott.
... Northumberland Loke Shubenocodie Strait 27 26 16 O TI A S .6 8 . 7 St. Mary's Bay Towns Prince Edward Island Nova Scotia Trinidad 1792 1800 Great Britain Sierra Leone Niger R Ontario and Quebec Towns - Ontario 6. Edwordsburgh 5. Prescott.
Contents
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3 Back to Africa 17911801 | 61 |
4 The Attack on Slavery in British North America 17931833 | 96 |
5 The Refugee Negroes | 114 |
6 The Coming of the Fugitive Slave 18151861 | 142 |
7 The Canadian Canaan 18421870 | 178 |
8 A Continental Abolitionism? | 233 |
11 Source of Strength?The Church | 337 |
12 Source of Strength?The Schools | 362 |
13 Source of Strength?The Press | 390 |
14 SelfHelp and a New Awakening 19301970 | 413 |
15 The Black Tile in the Mosaic | 470 |
How Many Negroes in Canada? | 484 |
Some Indicative Census Returns | 486 |
Note on Sources | 497 |
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