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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... wished to set free might enjoy that freedom . Between 1706 and 1736 the number of slaves who had been given their freedom - or claimed they had - increased rapidly , leading to confusion ( especially among the unchristianized who shared ...
... wished to set free might enjoy that freedom . Between 1706 and 1736 the number of slaves who had been given their freedom - or claimed they had - increased rapidly , leading to confusion ( especially among the unchristianized who shared ...
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... wished to push slavery while the King was reluctant to do so may be found in the circumstances of Hocquart's ordonnance in 1736. The in- tendant apparently had wished to be more sweeping than his statement reveals , for the King told ...
... wished to push slavery while the King was reluctant to do so may be found in the circumstances of Hocquart's ordonnance in 1736. The in- tendant apparently had wished to be more sweeping than his statement reveals , for the King told ...
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... wished to do so . Further , they were as susceptible as other men to the racial thought of the times - thought that even in nonslaveholding France led in 1763 to a prohibition upon all Negroes , slave or free , who would sail from the ...
... wished to do so . Further , they were as susceptible as other men to the racial thought of the times - thought that even in nonslaveholding France led in 1763 to a prohibition upon all Negroes , slave or free , who would sail from the ...
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... wished " not to encourage the introduction of slaves into Canada , " that " it is true that there were ordinances as to slavery , " that " slavery did not prevail in Canada , " and that the " plague [ was ] unknown under our northern ...
... wished " not to encourage the introduction of slaves into Canada , " that " it is true that there were ordinances as to slavery , " that " slavery did not prevail in Canada , " and that the " plague [ was ] unknown under our northern ...
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... wished to know . After an unsuccessful attempt to have a group of illegally seized slaves returned at Detroit to their Loyalist owner , in 1781 Haldimand ordered Sir John Johnson , a Loyalist from New York who , together with Butler ...
... wished to know . After an unsuccessful attempt to have a group of illegally seized slaves returned at Detroit to their Loyalist owner , in 1781 Haldimand ordered Sir John Johnson , a Loyalist from New York who , together with Butler ...
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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