Black Refugees In Canada

Author : George Hendrick
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786456159
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Black Refugees in Canada written by George Hendrick and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2010-03-16 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thousands of black people sought refuge in Canada before the U.S. Civil War. While most refugees encountered at least some racism among Canadian citizens, many of those same refugees also thrived under the auspices of the Canadian government, which worked to protect blacks from the U.S. slaveowners who sought to re-enslave them. This work brings to light the life stories of several nineteenth-century black refugees who managed to survive in their new country by gaining work as barbers, postal carriers, washerwomen, waiters, cab owners, ministers, newspaper editors, and physicians. The book begins with a short historical account of blacks in Canada from 1629 until the early 1800s, when the first groups of escaped slaves began to enter the country.

Author : Harvey Amani Whitfield
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 9781584656067
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Blacks on the Border written by Harvey Amani Whitfield and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2006 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the emergence of community among African Americans in Nova Scotia.

Author : Benjamin Drew
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 666 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A North-side View of Slavery written by Benjamin Drew and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Wisdom Tettey
Publisher : University of Calgary Press
ISBN 13 : 1552381757
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The African Diaspora in Canada written by Wisdom Tettey and published by University of Calgary Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses the conceptual difficulties and political contestations surrounding the applicability of the term "African-Canadian". In the midst of this contested terrain, the volume focuses on first generation, Black Continental Africans who have immigrated to Canada in the last four decades, and have traceable genealogical links to the continent.

Author : Ruth Holmes Whithead
Publisher : Nimbus+ORM
ISBN 13 : 1771080175
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Black Loyalists written by Ruth Holmes Whithead and published by Nimbus+ORM. This book was released on 2014-04-25 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Engaging and steeped in years of research . . . a must read for all who care about the intersection of Canadian, American, British, and African history.” —Lawrence Hill, award-winning author of Someone Knows My Name In an attempt to ruin the American economy during the Revolutionary War, the British government offered freedom to slaves who would desert their rebel masters. Many Black men and women escaped to the British fleet patrolling the East Coast, or to the British armies invading the colonies from Maine to Georgia. After the final surrender of the British to the Americans, New York City was evacuated by the British Army throughout the summer and fall of 1783. Carried away with them were a vast number of White Loyalists and their families, and over 3,000 Black Loyalists: free, indentured, apprenticed, or still enslaved. More than 2,700 Black people came to Nova Scotia with the fleet from New York City. Black Loyalists strives to present hard data about the lives of Nova Scotia Black Loyalists before they escaped slavery in early South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida, and after they settled in Nova Scotia—to tell the little-known story of some very brave and enterprising men and women who survived the chaos of the American Revolution, people who found a way to pass through the heart, ironically, of a War for Liberty, to find their own liberty and human dignity. Includes historical images and documents

Author : Vicent Cucarella Ramon
Publisher : Universitat de València
ISBN 13 : 8491349138
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Benjamin Drew written by Vicent Cucarella Ramon and published by Universitat de València. This book was released on 2021-12-20 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Benjamin Drew’s "North-Side View of Slavery: The Refugee, or the Narratives of Fugitive Slaves in Canada" (1856) is a collection of his interviews with former slaves living in Canada who had escaped from the United States, and an invaluable example of the transnational abolitionist movement’s political agenda. These edited oral accounts show how these runaways turned into African Canadians and reconfigured new meanings of Blackness in Canada, set out the foundations of a Black Canadian sense of attachment, and eventually helped to reshape North America by contributing to the birth of the Canadian nation-state.

Author : John W. Frazier
Publisher : Global Academic Publishing
ISBN 13 : 143843684X
Total Pages : 387 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The African Diaspora in the United States and Canada at the Dawn of the 21st Century written by John W. Frazier and published by Global Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2010-09-01 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers important new perspectives on the African diaspora in North America. Drawing on the work of social scientists from geographic, historical, sociological, and political science perspectives, this volume offers new perspectives on the African diaspora in the United States and Canada. It has been approximately four centuries since the first Africans set foot in North America, and although it is impossible for any text to capture the complete Black experience on the continent, the persistent legacy of Black inequality and the winds of dramatic change are inseparable parts of the current African diaspora experience. In addition to comparing and contrasting the experiences and geographic patterns of the African diaspora in the United States and Canada, the book also explores important distinctions between the experiences of African Americans and those of more recent African and Afro-Caribbean immigrants.

Author : Robin W. Winks
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 077351631X
Total Pages : 578 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Blacks in Canada written by Robin W. Winks and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1997 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: **** A sweeping historical survey covering all aspects of the Black experience in Canada, from 1628 through the 1960s. Investigates the French and English periods of slavery, the abolitionist movement in Canada, and the role played by Canadians in the broader antislavery crusade, as well as Canadian adaptations to 19th- and 20th-century racial mores. First published in 1971 by Yale University Press. This second edition includes a new introduction outlining changes that have occurred since the book's first appearance and discussing the state of African-Canadian studies today. Cited in BCL3. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Statistics Canada
Publisher : Statistics Canada, Demography Division
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Canada's Population written by Statistics Canada and published by Statistics Canada, Demography Division. This book was released on 1979 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication discusses the population growth trends of this century.

Author : Vinh Nguyen
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1487508646
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Refugee States written by Vinh Nguyen and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Refugee States explores how the figure of the refugee and the concept of refuge shape the Canadian nation-state within a transnational context.