Biographical Dictionary of Enslaved Black People in the Maritimes / Harvey Whitfield.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Whitfield, Harvey, Author.

Contributor:

Wright, Donald.

Series:

Studies in Atlantic Canada History

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Slavery--Maritime Provinces.

Slavery.

Enslaved persons--Maritime Provinces--Biography--Dictionaries.

Enslaved persons.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (304 p.)

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2022]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

In the windswept and cold Canadian Maritimes, slavery found fertile ground that produced multiple generations of enslaved people. This book sheds light on more than 1,400 brief life histories of mostly enslaved Black people, with the goal of recovering their individual lives. In this important book, Harvey Amani Whitfield unearths the stories of men, women, and children who would not otherwise have found their way into written history. The individual lives mentioned come from various points of origin, including Africa, the West Indies, the Carolinas, the Chesapeake, and the northern states, showcasing the remarkable range of the African experience in the Atlantic world. Whitfield makes it clear that these enslaved Black people had likes, dislikes, various personality traits, and different levels of physical, spiritual, and intellectual talent. In doing so, he affirms the notion that all of these slaves were unique individuals, despite the efforts of their owners and the wider Atlantic world to dehumanize and erase them. Biographical Dictionary of Enslaved Black People in the Maritimes helps us understand the challenges of race in our own time by telling a new story about Canadian history – one rooted in the difficulties of slavery and the actions taken to fight for dignity.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Foreword: Harvey Amani Whitfield, Slavery, and the Decentring of Canadian History

Historical Overview: Black Slavery in the Maritimes

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Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2022)

ISBN:

1-4875-4384-0

OCLC:

1274246150