The Promised Land : : History and Historiography of the Black Experience in Chatham-Kent's Settlements and Beyond / / Boulou de b'Beri, Nina Reid-Maroney, Handel K. Wright.
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 present the...
Saved in:
| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press Pilot 2014-2015 |
|---|---|
| HerausgeberIn: | |
| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2018] ©2014 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | African & Diasporic Cultural Studies
|
| Online Access: | |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (248 p.) :; 2 figures |
| Tags: |
Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
|
Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1. The Politics of Knowledge: The Promised Land Project and Black Canadian History as a Model of Historical "Manufacturation"?
- 2. Multiculturality before Multiculturalism: Troubling History and Black Identity beyond the Last Stop on the Underground Railroad
- 3. History, Historiography, and the Promised Land Project
- 4. William Whipper's Lands along the Sydenham
- 5. Nina Mae Alexander: Daughter of Promise
- 6. "A Contented Mind Is a Continual Feast": Tracing Intellectual Migrations through the Promised Land
- 7. Resisting Imperial Governance in Canada: From Trade and Religious Kinship to Black Narrative Pedagogy in Ontario
- 8. African American Abolitionist and Kinship Connections in Nineteenth- Century Delaware, Canada West, and Liberia
- 9. Reimagining the Dawn Settlement
- Epilogue Reflections: The Challenges and Accomplishments of the Promised Land
- Bibliography
- Contributors
- Index