Charmaine A. Nelson, “‘Ran Away from Her Master...a Negroe Girl Named Thursday:’ Examining Evidence of Punishment, Isolation, and Trauma in Nova Scotia and Quebec Fugitive Slave Advertisements.” In Legal Violence and the Limits of the Law: Cruel and Unusual, edited by Amy Swiffen and Joshua Nichols. Routledge, 2017. Nelson writes: "While much is known about … Continue reading CHAPTER: Nelson on Runaway Slave Ads in Canada
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BLOGROLL: Cooper on Ontario Underground Railroad Sites, Farming and Liberty
Afua Cooper on the Underground Railroad in Canada: "The British North American provinces, or Canada, were among the most storied termini of the Underground Railroad. At least 30,000 African-American men, women and children — fugitive slaves — fled the American South and made their way to Canada. The overwhelming majority settled in the southwestern portion of Ontario, … Continue reading BLOGROLL: Cooper on Ontario Underground Railroad Sites, Farming and Liberty
DIGITAL: Black Loyalist
About the project: "Black Loyalist is a repository of historical data about the African American loyalist refugees who left New York between April and November 1783 and whose names are recorded in the Book of Negroes. In this first stage, the site concentrates on providing biographical and demographic information for the largest cohort, about 1000 people … Continue reading DIGITAL: Black Loyalist
DIGITAL: Pybus on Black Loyalists and “The Book of Negroes” | @NotEvenPast
From 2011, Cassandra Pybus on using The Book of Negroes and the digital resource Black Loyalists: "The Book of Negroes is an extraordinary historical resource, a meticulous list drawn up by the British authorities between May and November 1783, in which they recorded the personal details of some 3,000 African Americans evacuated from New York. … Continue reading DIGITAL: Pybus on Black Loyalists and “The Book of Negroes” | @NotEvenPast
Nelson on Canadian Fugitive Slave Advertisements: An Untapped Archive of Resistance | Borealia
Charmaine A. Nelson writes: "Fugitive slave advertisements, claim historians Shane White and Graham White, are “the most detailed descriptions of the bodies of enslaved Africans Americans available.”[1] I would argue that their contention also applies to most regions of the Americas in general, including the territories that were to become Canada, particularly places where abolition … Continue reading Nelson on Canadian Fugitive Slave Advertisements: An Untapped Archive of Resistance | Borealia
BOOK: Browne on Slavery, Surveillance and other Dark Matters
Simone Browne, Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness. Durham: Duke University Press , 2015. via Duke: "In Dark Matters Simone Browne locates the conditions of blackness as a key site through which surveillance is practiced, narrated, and resisted. She shows how contemporary surveillance technologies and practices are informed by the long history of … Continue reading BOOK: Browne on Slavery, Surveillance and other Dark Matters
BOOK: Pybus on Epic Journeys of Freedom
Cassandra Pybus, Epic Journeys of Freedom: Runaway Slaves of the American Revolution and Their Global Quest for Liberty. Boston: Beacon Press, 2007. via Beacon Press: "The astounding story of runaway slaves during the American Revolution and the lives they forged on four continents. "During the American Revolution, thousands of slaves fled from their masters … Continue reading BOOK: Pybus on Epic Journeys of Freedom
FORUM on the International Underground Railroad Memorial
The January 2013 issue of the Journal of American Ethnic History hosts a forum on the International Underground Railroad Memorial: Faires, Nora. “Across the Border to Freedom: The International Underground Railroad Memorial and the Meanings of Migration.” Journal of American Ethnic History 32, no. 2 (January 1, 2013): 38–67. Kerber, Linda K. “Crossing Borders.” Journal … Continue reading FORUM on the International Underground Railroad Memorial
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