This paper examines how enslaved Africans living in Upper Canada at the turn of the 19th century protested and resisted their enslavement in diverse ways, and the impact of this resistant behaviour on attempts to legislate against and ameliorate the effects of slavery in the province. It shows that, in the case of the Chloe Cooley, her courage in the face of attempts to sell her away to a New York owner provided the catalyst that spurred the Upper Canadian government to pass its gradual emancipation act, some forty years before anti-slavery laws were passed elsewhere in the British Empire. This study centres Black Canadians, particularly the enslaved, as actors and agents in the making of their own, and thus a signficant part of Canada’s, h...
Documents left by a French Roman Catholic missionary and an Acadian merchant captain with Caribbean ...
Documents left by a French Roman Catholic missionary and an Acadian merchant captain with Caribbean ...
This article offers an overview of slave conspiracies and rebellions in the Americas during the fift...
Before the Civil War, what is now Ontario was the main destination of passengers on the fabled “Unde...
Several recent historical works have challenged interpretations of the civil rights movement...
Canada was settled by two large slave-owning nations during the per1od that Negro slavery flourished...
With an eye towards current practices of anti-Black schooling discrimination, this project theorizes...
This article closely examines the ways in which masters and slaves struggled to define slavery in th...
The dominant national narrative for Canadians today is that Canada was an antislavery haven for form...
An advertisement for a “Negro man and boy” and “a variety of other articles too tedious to mention” ...
Between the American Revolutionary War and the US Civil War (roughly 1775-1861), thousands of enslav...
This paper argues that the writings of abolitionist Samuel Ringgold Ward and other anti-slavery grou...
This microhistory of an African slave in eighteenth-century New France offers a unique series of ang...
This historical study describes the French Canadian, English and American backgrounds of early black...
The Underground Railroad is commonly understood as a defining moment in the ideology of the Canadian...
Documents left by a French Roman Catholic missionary and an Acadian merchant captain with Caribbean ...
Documents left by a French Roman Catholic missionary and an Acadian merchant captain with Caribbean ...
This article offers an overview of slave conspiracies and rebellions in the Americas during the fift...
Before the Civil War, what is now Ontario was the main destination of passengers on the fabled “Unde...
Several recent historical works have challenged interpretations of the civil rights movement...
Canada was settled by two large slave-owning nations during the per1od that Negro slavery flourished...
With an eye towards current practices of anti-Black schooling discrimination, this project theorizes...
This article closely examines the ways in which masters and slaves struggled to define slavery in th...
The dominant national narrative for Canadians today is that Canada was an antislavery haven for form...
An advertisement for a “Negro man and boy” and “a variety of other articles too tedious to mention” ...
Between the American Revolutionary War and the US Civil War (roughly 1775-1861), thousands of enslav...
This paper argues that the writings of abolitionist Samuel Ringgold Ward and other anti-slavery grou...
This microhistory of an African slave in eighteenth-century New France offers a unique series of ang...
This historical study describes the French Canadian, English and American backgrounds of early black...
The Underground Railroad is commonly understood as a defining moment in the ideology of the Canadian...
Documents left by a French Roman Catholic missionary and an Acadian merchant captain with Caribbean ...
Documents left by a French Roman Catholic missionary and an Acadian merchant captain with Caribbean ...
This article offers an overview of slave conspiracies and rebellions in the Americas during the fift...