The Queen's Bush Settlement

The Queen's Bush Settlement
Author: Linda Brown-Kubisch
Publisher: Dundurn
Total Pages: 353
Release: 2004-02-20
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1770704361

The Black pioneers (1839-1865) who cleared the land and established the Queen’s Bush settlement in that section of unsurveyed land where present-day Waterloo and Wellington counties meet, near Hawkesville, are the focus of this extensively researched book. Linda Brown-Kubisch’s attention to detail and commitment to these long-neglected settlers re-establishes their place in Ontario history. Set in the context of the early migration of Blacks into Upper Canada, this work is a must for historians and for genealogists involved in tracing family connections with these pioneer inhabitants of the Queen’s Bush. "In the 19th century one of the most important areas of settlement for fugitive American slaves was the Queen’s Bush, then an isolated region in the backwoods of Ontario. Despite much recent attention to African-Canadian history, the Queen’s Bush remains a remote territory for historical scholarship. Linda Brown-Kubisch offers a pioneering entry into that gap. With a jeweller’s eye for the biological subject, Brown-Kubisch introduces the courageous Black adventurers and the hardships they faced in Canada." - James Walker, Professor of History, University of Waterloo, and author of The Black Loyalists (1976, 1992) and "Race," Rights and the Law (1997).

The Queen's Bush Settlement

The Queen's Bush Settlement
Author: Linda Brown-Kubisch
Publisher: Dundurn
Total Pages: 354
Release: 2004-02-20
Genre: History
ISBN: 1896219853

The Black pioneers who established the Queens Bush settlement where present-day Waterloo and Wellington counties meet are the focus of this extensively researched book.

A Stolen Life

A Stolen Life
Author: Peter Meyler
Publisher: Dundurn
Total Pages: 148
Release: 1999-11-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781896219554

Captured in Bundu (now part of Senegal) around 1744, Pierpoint escapes slavery, finds freedom in Canada, and is involved in the War of 1812.

I've Got a Home in Glory Land

I've Got a Home in Glory Land
Author: Karolyn Smardz Frost
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 492
Release: 2008-06-24
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780374531256

The Blackburns' improbable journey from bondage to freedom pulsates with the breath-catching urgency of a thriller, yet this remarkable story is true . . . An invaluable testament to resistance, resilience, and a once-denied but unalienable right to life and liberty.--Rene Graham, "The Boston Globe."

Hawaii's Story

Hawaii's Story
Author: Liliuokalani (Queen of Hawaii)
Publisher:
Total Pages: 478
Release: 1898
Genre: Hawaii
ISBN:

It Was Dark There All the Time

It Was Dark There All the Time
Author: Andrew Hunter
Publisher:
Total Pages: 362
Release: 2022-01-25
Genre:
ISBN: 9781773102191

"My parents were slaves in New York State. My master's sons-in-law ... came into the garden where my sister and I were playing among the currant bushes, tied their handkerchiefs over our mouths, carried us to a vessel, put us in the hold, and sailed up the river. I know not how far nor how long -- it was dark there all the time." These words, recorded by Benjamin Drew in 1855, provide Sophia Burthen's account of her arrival as an enslaved person into what is now Canada sometime in the late 18th century. In It Was Dark There All the Time, writer and curator Andrew Hunter builds on the testimony of Drew's interview to piece together Burthen's life, while reckoning with the legacy of whiteness and colonialism in the recording of her story. In so doing, Hunter demonstrates the role that the slave trade played in pre-Confederation Canada and its continuing impact on contemporary Canadian society. Evocatively written with sharp, incisive observations and illustrated with archival images and contemporary works of art, It Was Dark There All the Time offers a necessary correction to the prevailing perception of Canada as a place unsullied by slavery and its legacy.

The Life and Times of Erik the Red

The Life and Times of Erik the Red
Author: Earle Rice Jr.
Publisher: Mitchell Lane
Total Pages: 79
Release: 2019-12-05
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1545748322

Few people recall the name of Eirik Thorvaldsson, who began life in Jaederen, Norway, around 950. When he was nine years old, his father killed a manor maybe twoand was forced to flee with his family to Iceland. Young Eirik grew up in the harsh environs of that wind-swept isle in the North Atlantic. Harsh lands breed harsh men, and Eirik fit the mold. Like his father before him, he battled with neighbors and killed several men in blood feuds. Banished from Iceland for three years, he sailed west to seek refuge in an unexplored land. After three years in exile, Eirik returned to Iceland with tales of his discoveries in that new land to the west. He called it Greenland to entice others to join him there. Around 985, he sailed west again from Iceland with twenty-five ships of colonists. History records him as the founder of the first European settlement in Greenland and the father of Leif Eriksson. People remember him best as Erik the Red.

Bush Warfare

Bush Warfare
Author: William Charles Giffard Heneker
Publisher:
Total Pages: 246
Release: 1907
Genre: Africa, West
ISBN:

A tactical manual of how to effectively fight small wars in hostile territory and difficult terrain, based on the author's experiences in West Africa. It was required reading in both the British and the US armies from its publication in 1907 until it was replaced in the 1930s