Blacks in Canada : a history / Robin W. Winks ; foreword by George Elliott Clarke.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Winks, Robin W., author.

Contributor:

Clarke, George Elliott, writer of foreword.

Series:

Carleton library series ; 255.

Carleton library series ; 255

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Black people--Canada--History.

Black people.

Black people--Canada--Social conditions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxxvii, 546 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

Fiftieth anniversary edition.

Place of Publication:

Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2021]

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

Foreword

Preface to the First Edition

Preface to the Second Edition

Acknowledgments

A Note on Terminology

List of Abbreviations

Slavery in New France, 1628-1760

Slavery, the Loyalists, and English Canada, 1760-1801

“Back to Africa,” 1791-1801

The Attack on Slavery in British North America, 1793-1833

The Refugee Negroes

The Coming of the Fugitive Slave, 1815-1861

The Canadian Canaan, 1842-1870

A Continental Abolitionism?

West of the Rockies

To the Nadir, 1865-1930

Source of Strength?—The Church

Source of Strength?—The Schools

Source of Strength?—The Press

Self-Help and a New Awakening, 1930-1970

The Black Tile in the Mosaic

How Many Negroes in Canada?

A Note on Sources

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-2280-0790-9

OCLC:

1243537737