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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Page x
... later Negro assimilation . Slowly , as its three purposes developed clarity , the study became an inquiry into Negro history , Canadian history , and Canadian - American relations . This book is the result . Some observations may also ...
... later Negro assimilation . Slowly , as its three purposes developed clarity , the study became an inquiry into Negro history , Canadian history , and Canadian - American relations . This book is the result . Some observations may also ...
Page xiii
... ; nor could I end the story so abruptly , since the real meaning of events in the mid - nineteenth century was brought to light only by much later developments . Thus I conceived of xiii Preface to the Second Edition.
... ; nor could I end the story so abruptly , since the real meaning of events in the mid - nineteenth century was brought to light only by much later developments . Thus I conceived of xiii Preface to the Second Edition.
Page xvi
... later . But the book was , and is , about Negro Canadians and Black Canadians and Afro - Canadians and African - Canadians . These shifts are significant , and in speech and sub- sequent writing I have followed them , both as a matter ...
... later . But the book was , and is , about Negro Canadians and Black Canadians and Afro - Canadians and African - Canadians . These shifts are significant , and in speech and sub- sequent writing I have followed them , both as a matter ...
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... later life he signed his name with a cross - he learned his catechism well . In 1633 he was bap- tized and , as Christianized natives were permitted to do , took the Christian name Olivier ( from Olivier le Tardif , the head clerk ) ...
... later life he signed his name with a cross - he learned his catechism well . In 1633 he was bap- tized and , as Christianized natives were permitted to do , took the Christian name Olivier ( from Olivier le Tardif , the head clerk ) ...
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... later , and throughout the process there were far more panis slaves than Negro , so that the system did not become so inexorably and so quickly intertwined with a single race . French slavery arose from a patchwork of jurisprudence ...
... later , and throughout the process there were far more panis slaves than Negro , so that the system did not become so inexorably and so quickly intertwined with a single race . French slavery arose from a patchwork of jurisprudence ...
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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