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Blacks in Canada A History, Second Edition

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ISBN-10: 0773516328

ISBN-13: 9780773516328

Edition: 2nd 1997

Authors: Robin W. Winks

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This sweeping historical survey covers all aspects of the black experience in Canada, from the introduction of slavery in 1628 to the first wave of Caribbean immigration in the 1950s and 1960s. Winks also looks at changes since the first edition.
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Book details

List price: $32.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Publication date: 5/16/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 576
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 1.892
Language: English

Preface
Preface to the Second Edition
Acknowledgments
A Note on Terminology
List of Abbreviations
Slavery in New France, 1628-1760
Slavery, the Loyalists, and English Canada, 1760-1801
"Back to Africa," 1791-1801
The Attack on Slavery in British North America, 1793-1833
The Refugee Negroes
The Coming of the Fugitive Slave, 1815-1861
The Canadian Canaan, 1842-1870
A Continental Abolitionism?
West of the Rockies
To the Nadir, 1865-1930
Source of Strength? - The Church
Source of Strength? - The Schools
Source of Strength? - The Press
Self-Help and a New Awakening, 1930-1970
The Black Tile in the Mosaic
How Many Negroes in Canada?
Table: Some Indicative Census Returns
Note on Sources
Index
Maps