Ch. 3 – The Black Canadian Nineteenth Century

A List of Supplemental Links to Chapter 3

3.1. BLACK MIGRATION TO UPPER CANADA BEFORE ABOLITION 89

 

3.2. A FORMER ANTI-SLAVERY EDITOR IN CANADA: SUSANNA STRICKLAND AND THE SLAVE NARRATIVES OF MARY PRINCE AND ASHTON WARNER 93

Blackness in Moodie’s Canadian Texts 101

 

3.3 SLAVE NARRATIVES BETWEEN ABOLITION AND THE FUGITIVE SLAVE ACT (1834-50) 110

The Narratives of Moses Roper and Lewis and Milton Clarke 112

Josiah Henson, Dawn, and Black Education 114

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British American Institute Cemetery at Dawn (Dresden, Ontario) – Photo W. Siemerling

Canada West and the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850: Harriet Tubman, Henry and Mary Bibb, and the North American Convention of Colored Freemen in Toronto 117

 

3.4 MARY ANN SHADD, CHATHAM, AND THE BLACK CANADIAN RENAISSANCE 121

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School in North Buxton, where historical classes are re-enacted today – Photo W. Siemerling

The Black Canadian Renaissance 121

Mary Ann Shadd and Transformation: “We Can … Change That Condition” 123

Samuel Ringgold Ward’s Description of the Black Communities in Canada 142

Recording Black Economic and Emotional Geographies of Canada West: The Accounts of Benjamin Drew, William Wells Brown, and Samuel Gridley Howe 147

Chatham and Brazilian Slavery: Mahommah Gardo Baquaqua 155

Chatham in the later 1850s: Martin Delany, Mary Ann Shadd, John Brown 157

Osborne P. Anderson, Shadd, and A Voice from Harper’s Ferry 170

 

3.5 FROM THE MID-1860S INTO THE TWENTIETH CENTURY 173