A plea for emigration ; or, Notes of Canada West / Mary Ann Shadd ; advisory editor, A plea for emigration, Phanuel Antwi, University of British Columbia.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cary, Mary Ann Shadd, 1823-1893.

Contributor:

Antwi, Phanuel, editor.

Series:

Broadview anthology of British literature edition

A Broadview anthology of British literature edition

Standardized Title:

Plea for emigration

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Immigrants--Ontario--Guidebooks.

Immigrants.

Black people--Travel--Ontario--Guidebooks.

Black people.

Emigration and immigration.

Social conditions.

Travel.

Ontario--Guidebooks.

Ontario.

Ontario--Description and travel.

Ontario--Social conditions--19th century.

Ontario--Emigration and immigration.

Genre:

Guidebooks.

Physical Description:

84 pages : illustrations; 22 cm.

Other Title:

Notes of Canada West

Plea for emigration

Place of Publication:

Peterborough, Ontario : Broadview Press, 2016.

Summary:

"The abolitionist Mary Ann Shadd's pamphlet A Plea for Emigration; or Notes of Canada West is, as the title promises, a settler guide designed to inform prospective immigrants of conditions in their proposed new home. But whereas most such works were addressed to potential white emigrants to North America from Britain or continental Europe, Shadd's aimed to entice black Americans to emigrate to Canada. Written in the 1850s, when the Fugitive Slave Act had recently made life even more untenable for free blacks in the United States, Shadd's guide to immigration takes a position on a controversy that divided abolitionists of the period: could emigration to Canada be a viable strategy of opposition to the oppression of blacks in the United States, or would blacks need to remain in the country to assert their claim to equal rights as Americans? The introduction and background materials included in this volume help to situate Shadd's pamphlet in its political and cultural context, and in the context of Shadd's own remarkable life as an abolitionist, women's rights activist, writer, and educator. Background materials include selections from Frederick Douglass's Life of an American Slave, in which he presents a view of emigration to Canada that strongly opposes Shadd's; portions of the 1850 Fugitive Slave Act; and relevant selections from The Provincial Freeman, Shadd's own abolitionist newspaper."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

A Plea for Emigration; or Notes of Canada West 15

Introductory Remarks 19

A Plea for Emigration, & c. 21

British America 21

The Canadas-Climate Etc. 21

Soils-Timber-Clearing Lands 24

Grains, Potatoes, Turnips, &C. 27

Fruits-Vines-Berries 28

Domestic Animals-Fowls-Game 29

Prices of Land in the Country-City Property, &C. 31

Labor-Trades 32

Churches-Schools 33

Settlements-Dawn-Elgin-The Institution-Fugitive Homes 38

By-laws 42

Political Rights-Election Law-Oath-Currency 43

Articles Exempt from Duty 46

Currency of Canada 47

Abstract of Law of Succession in Upper Canada 47

The Thirty Thousand Colored Freemen of Canada 48

The French and Foreign Population 52

Recapitulation 54

The British West Indies-Mexico-South America-Africa 54

Mexico 58

Vancouver's Island-Concluding Remarks 61

In Context 65

1 from Harriet Martineau, Society in America (1838) 65

from Volume 1, Chapter 3, Section VT ("Citizenship of People of Color") 65

from Volume 2, Chapter 1, "Agriculture," Section II ("Rural Labor") 66

from Volume 2, Chapter 5, "Morals of Economy," Section I ("Morals of Slavery") 8 70

2 Life of an American Slave (1845) / from Frederick Douglass Douglass, from Frederick 70

from Chapter II 71

3 Smith's Canadian Gazetteer (1846) / from William H. Smith Smith, from William H. 72

4 from The Fugitive Slave Act (1850) 76

5 from the Provincial Freeman, 24 March 1854 77

Relations of Canada to American Slavery 77

Union 80

American Slavery 81.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781554813216

1554813212

OCLC:

949872497

Publisher Number:

99969320744