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 xiv
... Modern Democracy , on the nature of Black - White relations in the United States , and John Porter's 1965 book , The Vertical Mosaic : An Analysis of Social Class and Power in Canada . At xiv Preface to the Second Edition.
... Modern Democracy , on the nature of Black - White relations in the United States , and John Porter's 1965 book , The Vertical Mosaic : An Analysis of Social Class and Power in Canada . At xiv Preface to the Second Edition.
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A History Robin W. Winks. Analysis of Social Class and Power in Canada . At the time both books were powerfully attractive and influential : I derived some of my organizing prin- ciples from them and perhaps too readily accepted the idea ...
A History Robin W. Winks. Analysis of Social Class and Power in Canada . At the time both books were powerfully attractive and influential : I derived some of my organizing prin- ciples from them and perhaps too readily accepted the idea ...
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... Social Science Research Council , through a grant - in - aid of re- search in 1959-60 , enabled me to begin this study ; and Yale University , through the award of a Morse Fellowship and supplementary travel funds for research in Canada ...
... Social Science Research Council , through a grant - in - aid of re- search in 1959-60 , enabled me to begin this study ; and Yale University , through the award of a Morse Fellowship and supplementary travel funds for research in Canada ...
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... social conditions . Slavery was given its legal foundation in New France between 1689 and 1709 , and had the timing been different , the institution might well have taken a firmer hold than it did . Prior to 1663 New France had been a ...
... social conditions . Slavery was given its legal foundation in New France between 1689 and 1709 , and had the timing been different , the institution might well have taken a firmer hold than it did . Prior to 1663 New France had been a ...
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... social reality , and as such the church ac- cepted it.33 Certainly the fact that the church admitted the slave to equality in some of the sacraments , -baptism , communion , and burial - must have encour- aged owners to think of their ...
... social reality , and as such the church ac- cepted it.33 Certainly the fact that the church admitted the slave to equality in some of the sacraments , -baptism , communion , and burial - must have encour- aged owners to think of their ...
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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