Black Refugees In Canada

Author : George Hendrick,Willene Hendrick
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2010-03-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780786456154

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Black Refugees in Canada by George Hendrick,Willene Hendrick Pdf

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
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1584656069

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Blacks on the Border by Harvey Amani Whitfield Pdf

A study of the emergence of community among African Americans in Nova Scotia.

Author : Vicent Cucarella Ramon
Publisher : Universitat de València
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2021-12-20
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9788491349136

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Benjamin Drew by Vicent Cucarella Ramon Pdf

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 : Wisdom Tettey,Korbla P. Puplampu
Publisher : University of Calgary Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 9781552381755

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The African Diaspora in Canada by Wisdom Tettey,Korbla P. Puplampu Pdf

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 : Robin W. Winks
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780228007906

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Blacks in Canada by Robin W. Winks Pdf

Blacks in Canada journeys from the introduction of slavery in 1628 to the first wave of Caribbean immigration in the 1950s and 1960s. Heralded in the Literary Review of Canada as one of the one hundred most important Canadian books, this enduring work by Yale University's Robin W. Winks offers a wealth of information for fresh interpretation. Now, fifty years from its original printing, 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. The longevity of Blacks in Canada is due to an impressive array of primary and secondary materials that illuminate the experiences of Black immigrants to Canada. These experiences include the forced migration of enslaved Black people brought to Nova Scotia and the Canadas by Loyalists at the end of the American Revolution, Black refugees who fled to Nova Scotia following the War of 1812, Jamaican Maroons, and fugitive slaves who fled to British North America. The book also highlights Black West Coast businessmen who helped found British Columbia, particularly Victoria, and Black settlement in the prairie provinces. Crucially, Blacks in Canada investigates the French and English periods of slavery, the abolitionist movement in Canada, and the role played by Canadians in the broader continental antislavery crusade, as well as Canadian adaptations to nineteenth- and twentieth-century racial mores.

Author : Ruth Holmes Whithead
Publisher : Nimbus+ORM
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2014-04-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781771080170

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Black Loyalists by Ruth Holmes Whithead Pdf

“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 : Jan Raska
Publisher : Univ. of Manitoba Press
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2018-08-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780887555701

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Czech Refugees in Cold War Canada by Jan Raska Pdf

During the Cold War, more than 36,000 individuals entering Canada claimed Czechoslovakia as their country of citizenship. A defining characteristic of this migration of predominantly political refugees was the prevalence of anti-communist and democratic values. Diplomats, industrialists, politicians, professionals, workers, and students fled to the West in search of freedom, security, and economic opportunity. Jan Raska’s Czech Refugees in Cold War Canada explores how these newcomers joined or formed ethnocultural organizations to help in their attempts to affect developments in Czechoslovakia and Canadian foreign policy towards their homeland. Canadian authorities further legitimized the Czech refugees’ anti-communist agenda and increased their influence in Czechoslovak institutions. In turn, these organizations supported Canada’s Cold War agenda of securing the state from communist infiltration. Ultimately, an adherence to anti-communism, the promotion of Canadian citizenship, and the cultivation of a Czechoslovak ethnocultural heritage accelerated Czech refugees’ socioeconomic and political integration in Cold War Canada. By analyzing oral histories, government files, ethnic newspapers, and community archival records, Raska reveals how Czech refugees secured admission as desirable immigrants and navigated existing social, cultural, and political norms in Cold War Canada.

Author : Statistics Canada
Publisher : Statistics Canada, Demography Division
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Canada
ISBN : CORNELL:31924050755937

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Canada's Population by Statistics Canada Pdf

This publication discusses the population growth trends of this century.

Author : Barrington Walker
Publisher : Canadian Scholars’ Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 9781551303406

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The History of Immigration and Racism in Canada by Barrington Walker Pdf

Examines the complex and disturbing history of immigration and racism in Canada. This book covers themes including Native/non-Native contact, migration and settlement in the nineteenth century, immigrant workers and radicalism, human rights, internment during WWII, and racism.

Author : Chifuka M Chundu
Publisher : FriesenPress
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781039118461

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Immigrants' Journeys by Chifuka M Chundu Pdf

Imagine walking one-thousand kilometres to cross the border from war-torn South Sudan into Ethiopia, eventually seeking asylum in Canada. Or moving from Ghana to Quebec as a child, not speaking English or French, and being one of the few Black people living in a predominantly Italian neighbourhood? These are just two of the nineteen powerful first-hand accounts of immigrant journeys author Chifuka Chundu has collected in these pages. Divided into four parts, An Immigrant’s Journey: Africans Making Canada Home chronicles the challenges and opportunities these newcomers to Canada experienced, whether coping with post-traumatic stress disorder, dealing with divorce, navigating educational and government systems, or finding ways to preserve their culture while adapting to a new one that’s radically different. Each part is supported with a self-help section composed of a Q&A with an expert who shares practical advice and insight to help immigrants address the diverse issues they may face, in order to set themselves up for success in their adopted home.

Author : Robin W. Winks
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Black people
ISBN : 9780773516311

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Blacks in Canada by Robin W. Winks Pdf

**** 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 : James W. St. G. Walker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Black people
ISBN : NWU:35556017422254

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Racial Discrimination in Canada by James W. St. G. Walker Pdf

Author : Benjamin Drew
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 666 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1856
Category : African Americans
ISBN : HARVARD:32044015597222

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A North-side View of Slavery by Benjamin Drew Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2019-01-21
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789004376083

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Immigration, Racial and Ethnic Studies in 150 Years of Canada by Anonim Pdf

Immigration, Racial and Ethnic Studies in 150 Years of Canada: Retrospects and Prospects provides a wide-ranging overview of immigration and contested racial and ethnic relations in Canada since confederation with a core theme being one of enduring racial and ethnic conflict.

Author : B. Singh Bolaria,Peter S. Li
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UOM:39015014938040

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Racial Oppression in Canada by B. Singh Bolaria,Peter S. Li Pdf

Comprises essays. Discusses race relations beginning in the mid- 18th century and continuing to the mid-1980s. Asserts that racial discrimination is part of Canadian history and part of the capitalist economic system. Includes case studies of indigenous people, Chinese and Japanese immigrants, and blacks.