Blacks in Canada : a history
The definitive history of the African-Canadian experience, this third edition includes a foreword by George Elliott Clarke, E.J. Pratt Professor of Canadian Literature at the University of Toronto. Clarke's contribution adds a necessary critical lens through which twenty-first-century readers should view Winks's research.
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- ISBN: 9780228007890
- Physical Description 584 pages ; 23 cm
- Edition 50th anniversary edition.
- Publisher [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 2021.
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Table of Contents
Blacks in Canada : A History
Section | Section Description | Page Number |
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Foreword to the Fiftieth Anniversary Edition George Elliott Clarke | p. ix | |
Preface to the First Edition | p. xxiii | |
Preface to the Second Edition | p. xxvii | |
Acknowledgments | p. xxxiii | |
A Note on Terminology | p. xxxv | |
List of Abbreviations | p. xxxvi | |
1 | Slavery in New France, 1628-1760 | p. 1 |
2 | Slavery, the Loyalists, and English Canada, 1760-1801 | p. 24 |
3 | "Back to Africa," 1791-1801 | p. 61 |
4 | The Attack on Slavery in British North America, 1793-1833 | p. 96 |
5 | The Refugee Negroes | p. 114 |
6 | The Coming of the Fugitive Slave, 1815-1861 | p. 142 |
7 | The Canadian Canaan, 1842-1870 | p. 178 |
8 | A Continental Abolitionism? | p. 233 |
9 | West of the Rockies | p. 272 |
10 | To the Nadir, 1865-1930 | p. 288 |
11 | Source of Strength?-The Church | p. 337 |
12 | Source of Strength?-The Schools | p. 362 |
12 | Source of Strength?-The Press | p. 390 |
14 | Self-Help and a New Awakening, 1930-1970 | p. 413 |
15 | The Black Tile in the Mosaic | p. 470 |
Appendix: How Many Negroes in Canada? | p. 484 | |
Table: Some Indicative Census Returns | p. 486 | |
Note on Sources | p. 497 | |
Index | p. 521 |