Black Slavery In The Maritimes A History In Documents
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Author | : Harvey Amani Whitfield |
Publisher | : Broadview Press |
Total Pages | : 170 |
Release | : 2018-05-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1770486879 |
Many thousands of black people were enslaved in the Maritimes, Quebec, and Upper Canada between the seventeenth and early nineteenth centuries. It is not surprising that slavery played a part in Canadian history, but it is startling that it has not received widespread attention from the general Canadian public or from historians. This sourcebook collects a variety of documents, including runaway-slave advertisements, letters, court cases, and official government documents, offering readers an opportunity to explore black slavery in the Maritimes and revise their understanding of Canadian history.
Author | : Harvey Amani Whitfield |
Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 415 |
Release | : 2022-03-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1487543832 |
This important book sheds light on more than 1,400 brief life histories of mostly enslaved Black people, with the goal of recovering their individual lives. Harvey Amani Whitfield unearths the stories of men, women, and children who would not otherwise have found their way into written history. The individuals 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 Black experience in the Atlantic world. Whitfield makes it clear that these enslaved Black people had likes, dislikes, distinct personality traits, and different levels of physical, spiritual, and intellectual talent. Biographical Dictionary of Enslaved Black People in the Maritimes affirms the notion that they were all unique individuals, despite the efforts of their owners and the wider Atlantic world to dehumanize and erase them.
Author | : Harvey Whitfield |
Publisher | : Studies in Atlantic Canada His |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2022-03-09 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781487543822 |
This biographical dictionary recovers the stories and illuminates the lives of enslaved Black people in the Maritimes.
Author | : Harvey Amani Whitfield |
Publisher | : UBC Press |
Total Pages | : 191 |
Release | : 2016-02-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0774832312 |
Many Canadians believe their nation fell on the right side of history in harbouring black slaves from the United States. In fact, in the wake of the American Revolution, Loyalist families brought slaves with them to settle in the Maritime colonies of British North America. The transition from slavery in the American colonies to slavery in the Maritimes required slaves to use their traditions of survival, resistance, and kinship networks to negotiate their new reality. While some local judges chipped away at slavery, Maritime slaves fought against the institution of slavery by refusing to work, by running away, by reconstituting their families, and by challenging their owners in court. Harvey Amani Whitfield’s book, the first on slavery in the Maritimes, is a startling corrective to the enduring and triumphant narrative of Canada as a land of freedom at the end of the Underground Railroad.
Author | : Harvey Amani Whitfield |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2022 |
Genre | : HISTORY |
ISBN | : 9781487543846 |
"This biographical dictionary recovers the stories and illuminates the lives of enslaved Black people in the Maritimes."--
Author | : David Northrup |
Publisher | : Bedford/St. Martin's |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2007-07-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780312442446 |
Africans' influence in the Atlantic world before 1960 was not confined to their roles as victims in the one-way forced migration of the Atlantic slave trade and their labor on New World plantations. From the mid-eighteenth century to the mid-twentieth century, black people in the divided communities of the four Atlantic continents struggled to overcome geographical and cultural separations and build a broad coalition against discrimination and exploitation. David Northrup offers a collection of primary sources that presents the social, political, and intellectual interactions of black people around the Atlantic in their quests for advancement, liberation, and emancipation. His thoughtful introduction explores the themes woven through the history of the black Atlantic, in particular black people's search for security and self-fulfillment and their effort to find their place in a common humanity. Document headnotes, a chronology of key events, questions for consideration, and a selected bibliography offer additional pedagogical support.
Author | : Jim Hornby |
Publisher | : Charlottetown, P.E.I. : Institute of Island Studies |
Total Pages | : 140 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Brantz Mayer |
Publisher | : DigiCat |
Total Pages | : 481 |
Release | : 2022-11-13 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
"Captain Canot, or Twenty Years of an African Slaver" is a biography of Captain Theodore Canot written and edited from his journals, memoranda and conversations by Brantz Mayer. Canot's biography is notable for its vividness and general accuracy and it illustrates perfectly the conduct and character of every branch of the slave trade.
Author | : Joanne M. Braxton |
Publisher | : LIT Verlag Münster |
Total Pages | : 172 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : African Americans |
ISBN | : 9783825872304 |
"With Aldon Nielson, the editors of this volume agree that ""the middle passage may be the great repressed signifier of American historical consciousness."" The essays collected here illustrate that the repressed memory of crossing lives not only in the academy, in oral traditions, and in the stone walls of slave fortresses but in the liturgy as well as the spiritual and religious practices throughout the African Diaspora. Descendants of African slaves living in the wide Diaspora are bearers of an ""unforgetful strength"" that endures and endures, manifesting itself in every aspect of culture. Black writers, artists and musicians in the New World have tested the limits of cultural memory, finding in it the inspiration to ""speak the unspeakable."" "
Author | : Michael Lawrence Dickinson |
Publisher | : University of Georgia Press |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 2022-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0820368628 |