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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... became the United States , this study also is an attempt to inquire into a neglected aspect of Canadian- American cultural relations . At no time in the twentieth century havé Negroes comprised more than a tiny fraction of the Canadian ...
... became the United States , this study also is an attempt to inquire into a neglected aspect of Canadian- American cultural relations . At no time in the twentieth century havé Negroes comprised more than a tiny fraction of the Canadian ...
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... became increasingly common . Clearly , confusion as to the formal status of the slave and how to give him his freedom lay back of the final step by which slavery acquired its tenuous footing in New France . On April 13 , 1709 , the ...
... became increasingly common . Clearly , confusion as to the formal status of the slave and how to give him his freedom lay back of the final step by which slavery acquired its tenuous footing in New France . On April 13 , 1709 , the ...
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... became a synonym for slave and was occasionally applied to Negroes as well ; for the majority of Indian slaves were , in fact , either Pawnees or from closely related tribes . Most of the slaves lived in or near Montreal , where 52.3 ...
... became a synonym for slave and was occasionally applied to Negroes as well ; for the majority of Indian slaves were , in fact , either Pawnees or from closely related tribes . Most of the slaves lived in or near Montreal , where 52.3 ...
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... became a fifth , unwarranted , and far more sweeping assumption about the failure of slavery to take root in New France : that it never existed . In his Histoire du Canada , in 1846 , he wrote that the secular authorities and clergy had ...
... became a fifth , unwarranted , and far more sweeping assumption about the failure of slavery to take root in New France : that it never existed . In his Histoire du Canada , in 1846 , he wrote that the secular authorities and clergy had ...
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... became an institution as such in New France . Limited in numbers and in extent , fully legal but not fully practiced , ap- proached only spasmodically and unsystematically as a solution to chronic labor problems that were created in ...
... became an institution as such in New France . Limited in numbers and in extent , fully legal but not fully practiced , ap- proached only spasmodically and unsystematically as a solution to chronic labor problems that were created in ...
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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