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
... thought it would be instructive to investigate the friends , freedom , and protection thus memorialized . But one could not know how the fugitives were re- ceived without understanding something of how British North Americans had dealt ...
... thought it would be instructive to investigate the friends , freedom , and protection thus memorialized . But one could not know how the fugitives were re- ceived without understanding something of how British North Americans had dealt ...
Page xi
... thought that someone might wish to pursue various topics further , the body of notes , correspondence , and related papers has been deposited with the Schomburg Collection of Negro History in the Countee Cullen Branch of the New York ...
... thought that someone might wish to pursue various topics further , the body of notes , correspondence , and related papers has been deposited with the Schomburg Collection of Negro History in the Countee Cullen Branch of the New York ...
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... thought the book definitive remarked on the historian's inclination to place too much emphasis on the significance of leadership . I continue to believe that individuals make a difference , and while I fully recognize that class ...
... thought the book definitive remarked on the historian's inclination to place too much emphasis on the significance of leadership . I continue to believe that individuals make a difference , and while I fully recognize that class ...
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... thought that In- dian and Negro blood was mixed with French Canadian , the historian Benjamin Sulte remarked in 1911 that by such marriages not more than a single drop of the Missouri River had been added to the greatness of the St ...
... thought that In- dian and Negro blood was mixed with French Canadian , the historian Benjamin Sulte remarked in 1911 that by such marriages not more than a single drop of the Missouri River had been added to the greatness of the St ...
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... thought to be inherent in man but was a temporary condition arising from the accident of events . Although Hoc- quart's ordonnance of 1736 implied that proof of his freedom lay with the Negro , the ruling was directed to an immediate ...
... thought to be inherent in man but was a temporary condition arising from the accident of events . Although Hoc- quart's ordonnance of 1736 implied that proof of his freedom lay with the Negro , the ruling was directed to an immediate ...
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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