The promised land : history and historiography of the Black experience in Chatham-Kent's settlements and beyond /

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"Eschewing the often romanticized Underground Railroad narrative that portrays southern Ontario as the welcoming destination of Blacks fleeing from slavery, The Promised Land reveals the Chatham-Kent area as a crucial settlement site for an early Black presence in Canada. The contributors prese...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Reid-Maroney, Nina Ruth, 1961- (Editor ), Wright, Handel Kashope, 1959- (Editor ), Ébanda de B'béri, Boulou (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto, Canada : University of Toronto Press, 2014.
Colección:African and diasporic cultural studies.
Temas:
1800-1899
Black people > Ontario > History > 19th century.
Black Canadians > Ontario > Chatham-Kent > History > 19th century.
Noirs canadiens > Ontario > Chatham-Kent > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Personnes noires > Ontario > Chatham-Kent > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Personnes noires > Ontario > Histoire > 19e siècle.
HISTORY > Canada > General.
HISTORY > North America.
Black people
Chatham-Kent (Ont.)
Ontario
Ontario > Chatham-Kent
Electronic books.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part I: Introducing the Promised Land Project
  • 1. The Politics of Knowledge: The Promised Land Project and Black Canadian History as a Model of Historical "Manufacturation"? / Boulou Ebanda de B'béri
  • 2. Multiculturality Before Multiculturalism: Troubling Black Identity and History Beyond the Last Stop on the Underground Railroad / Handel Kashope Wright
  • 3. History, Historiography and the Promised Land Project / Nina Reid-Maroney.
  • Part II: From Fragments through Biography to History. 4. William Whipper's Lands along the Sydenham / Marie Carter
  • 5. Mae Alexander: Daughter of Promise / Claudine Bonner
  • 6. "A Contented Mind is a Continual Feast" : Tracing Intellectual Migrations through the Promised Land / Nina Reid-Maroney.
  • Part III: Transgeographical Trajectories and Identity Formation beyond the Underground Railroad. 7. Resisting Imperial Governance in Canada: From Trade and Religious Kinship to Black Narrative Pedagogy in Ontario / Olivette Otele
  • 8. African-American Abolitionist and Kinship Connections in Nineteenth-Century Delaware, Canada West, and Liberia / Peter T. Dalleo
  • 9. Reimagining the Dawn Settlement / Marie Carter.

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