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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... early twentieth centuries brought other black men to Canada . The story of these men - settlers and transients - has never been told in any reasonably full way . The chief purpose of this book is to examine the history of Negro life in ...
... early twentieth centuries brought other black men to Canada . The story of these men - settlers and transients - has never been told in any reasonably full way . The chief purpose of this book is to examine the history of Negro life in ...
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... early draft and directed me to most of the manuscript sources used in Sierra Leone , while Professor Edwin Redkey of the University of Tennessee helped by evaluating chapter 11. Dr. C. Bruce Fergusson , Archivist for the Province of ...
... early draft and directed me to most of the manuscript sources used in Sierra Leone , while Professor Edwin Redkey of the University of Tennessee helped by evaluating chapter 11. Dr. C. Bruce Fergusson , Archivist for the Province of ...
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... early in 1689 sent a mem- orandum to the King in which he argued that slavery would be profitable for New France , since even the expense of clothing the slaves might be turned to advantage : the Negroes could , as the Algonquins did ...
... early in 1689 sent a mem- orandum to the King in which he argued that slavery would be profitable for New France , since even the expense of clothing the slaves might be turned to advantage : the Negroes could , as the Algonquins did ...
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... Slavery in the Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth Centuries , " The Canadian Catholic Historical Association , Report ( 1958 ) , pp . 13–22 . few colonies where slaves no more than horses could fully Slavery in New France , 1628-1760 13.
... Slavery in the Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth Centuries , " The Canadian Catholic Historical Association , Report ( 1958 ) , pp . 13–22 . few colonies where slaves no more than horses could fully Slavery in New France , 1628-1760 13.
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... early history of slavery , the institution in New France had comparatively little impact upon later generations of either Negroes or French Canadians.48 Slavery in New France , like freedom , never was a matter of doctrine but rather of ...
... early history of slavery , the institution in New France had comparatively little impact upon later generations of either Negroes or French Canadians.48 Slavery in New France , like freedom , never was a matter of doctrine but rather of ...
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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